CVE-2016-4952 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/23/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/23/4 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1334384 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg03774.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.0