CVE-2016-2858

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3