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
Medium
MetricsAV: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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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2017-1043
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10233-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10285-1
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