PT-2016-2663 · Qemu+5 · Qemu+5

Hongzhenhao + 1 · Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5403

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the virtqueue pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved by submitting requests without waiting for completion, resulting in memory consumption and a QEMU process crash.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1937

BDU:2016-02055

CESA-2016_1585

CESA-2016_1606

CVE-2016-5403

DLA-1927-1

DLA-573-1

DLA-574-1

MGASA-2017-0012

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2642-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10233-1

RHSA-2016:1585

RHSA-2016:1586

RHSA-2016:1606

RHSA-2016:1607

RHSA-2016:1652

RHSA-2016:1653

RHSA-2016:1654

RHSA-2016:1655

RHSA-2016:1756

RHSA-2016:1763

RHSA-2016:1943

RHSA-2016_1585

RHSA-2016_1606

RHSA-2016_1943

SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2589-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2628-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2725-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1

USN-3047-1

USN-3047-2

USN-3125-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Qemu

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 457

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5338 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3125-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4453 · Vendor Advisory
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/629847 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1585.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5337 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5403 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5403 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7909 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7908 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8578 · Vendor Advisory