CVE-2016-2858 (GCVE-0-2016-2858)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-07 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:40
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2016-03-04 00:00
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