CVE-2016-4952 describes an out-of-bounds array access vulnerability in QEMU's VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation, affecting various QEMU and Debian/Ubuntu Linux distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.0) allows a local guest OS administrator to cause a denial of service by sending specific SCSI commands. While the attack complexity is low, it requires high privileges within the guest OS and results in a complete loss of availability for the virtual machine. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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