PT-2016-6196
CVE-2016-4964
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Published
2016-12-10
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
6.0
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to an infinite loop, CPU consumption, or a QEMU process crash. This is achieved through vectors involving the
s->state variable in the mptsas fetch requests function.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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