Published: 01/06/2016 Updated: 14/05/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 0.8

VMScore: 320

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The vmsvga_fifo_read_raw function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information or cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) by changing FIFO registers and issuing a VGA command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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Debian Bug report logs - #826152 qemu: CVE-2016-5238: scsi: esp: OOB write when using non-DMA mode in get_cmd Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 18:54:01 UTC Severity: imp ...

USN-3047-1 introduced a regression in QEMU ...

Several security issues were fixed in QEMU ...

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 ...

CWE-119 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336429 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/3 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05271.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90927 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826152 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3047-2/

CVE-2016-4454

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