CVE-2016-5338

Description

The (1) esp_reg_read and (2) esp_reg_write functions in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors related to the information transfer buffer.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01507.html

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91079

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/14

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/3

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ff589551c8e8e9e95e211b9d8daafb4ed39f1aec

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3