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CVE-2016-7157

Published: Dec 10, 2016 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.7 LOW
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
3.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7157
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

The (1) mptsas_config_manufacturing_1 and (2) mptsas_config_ioc_0 functions in hw/scsi/mptconfig.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSAS_CONFIG_PACK.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 2.7.1 (including)
Qemu Ubuntu devel *
Qemu Ubuntu upstream *
Qemu Ubuntu yakkety *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu upstream *

References

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