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.
References
Link | Resource |
---|---|
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956 | |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 | Third Party Advisory |
History
No history.
MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2016-04-07T19:00:00
Updated: 2018-12-01T10:57:01
Reserved: 2016-03-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-2858
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-04-07T19:59:03.483
Modified: 2023-02-12T23:17:49.450
Link: CVE-2016-2858
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
No data.
CWE