2016-10-07
ALT-BU-2016-3037-1
Branch c7 update bulletin.
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2016-04-07
Modified: 2025-04-12
Modified: 2025-04-12
CVE-2016-2858
QEMU, when built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) back-end support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an entropy request, which triggers arbitrary stack based allocation and memory corruption.
Severity: LOW (1.9)Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Severity: MEDIUM (6.5)Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
References:
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01