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CVE-2016-4952
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to…
Medium6.0EPSS 0.37%
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- redhat
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) via vectors related to the (1) PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_RINGS or (2) PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_MSG_RING SCSI command.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- USN-3047-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160523 CVE request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: out-of-bounds access issue in pvsci_ring_init_msg/data routines (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160523 Re: CVE request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: out-of-bounds access issue in pvsci_ring_init_msg/data routines (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20160523 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: pvscsi: check command descriptor ring buffer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3047-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1334384 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .