Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-2858

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.

  • Published: Apr 7, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-2858
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 1.9
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 2.5.1.1.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 15.10 15.10.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 12.04 12.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x