CVE-2016-6833
Published: 18 August 2016
Use-after-free vulnerability in the vmxnet3_io_bar0_write function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to check if the device is active.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 4.4
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Needs triage
|
precise |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
xenial |
Does not exist
|
|
yakkety |
Does not exist
|
|
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Needs triage
|
precise |
Does not exist
|
|
trusty |
Released
(2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30)
|
|
xenial |
Released
(1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6)
|
|
yakkety |
Released
(1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.1)
|
|
Patches: upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=6c352ca9b4ee3e1e286ea9e8434bd8e69ac7d0d8 |