CVE-2016-2858 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5