vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-4952: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 2, 2016
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) via vectors related to the (1) PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_RINGS or (2) PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_MSG_RING SCSI command.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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