vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-8669: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 25, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

The serial_update_parameters function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a value of divider greater than baud base.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
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