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CVE-2016-8668

Published: 4 November 2016

The rocker_io_writel function in hw/net/rocker/rocker.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit DMA buffer size.

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 6.0

Status

Package Release Status
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 Not vulnerable
(code not present)
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=8caed3d564672e8bc6d2e4c6a35228afd01f4723