medium6.5
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 …
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | through 2.5.1.1 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- 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