CVE-2016-4454

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-4454  

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an information disclosure issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes or crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an information disclosure issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes or crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.

Find out more about CVE-2016-4454 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.8
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) qemu-kvm-rhev Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 qemu-kvm-rhev Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 qemu-kvm-rhev Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-kvm Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Li Qiang (Qihoo 360) and Qinghao Tang (Qihoo 360) for reporting this issue.