4.4
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-7156

Published: 10/12/2016 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 0.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The pvscsi_convert_sglist function in hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging an incorrect cast.

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Several security issues were fixed in QEMU ...
The pvscsi_convert_sglist function in hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsic in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging an incorrect cast ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840341 qemu: CVE-2016-8577: 9pfs: host memory leakage in v9fs_read Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:33:02 UTC Severity: normal Tags: patch, ...
Debian Bug report logs - #832621 qemu: CVE-2016-6351: scsi: esp: oob write access while reading ESP command Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:03:02 UTC Severity: impor ...
Debian Bug report logs - #834944 qemu: CVE-2016-6836: Information leak in vmxnet3_complete_packet Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:00:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags: pe ...
Debian Bug report logs - #837174 qemu: CVE-2016-7155: scsi: pvscsi: OOB read and infinite loop while setting descriptor rings Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 18:36:02 UT ...
Debian Bug report logs - #834905 qemu: CVE-2016-6834: infinite loop during packet fragmentation Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:57:02 UTC Severity: normal Tags: pend ...
Debian Bug report logs - #832767 qemu: CVE-2016-6490: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:33:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: pend ...
Debian Bug report logs - #834902 qemu: CVE-2016-6888 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:33:05 UTC Severity: normal Tags: pending, security, upstream Found in version q ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840340 qemu: CVE-2016-8578 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:30:02 UTC Severity: normal Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in version qem ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847400 qemu: CVE-2016-9908: display: virtio-gpu-3d: information leakage in virgl_cmd_get_capset Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 20:57:04 UTC S ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840945 qemu: CVE-2016-8669: char: divide by zero error in serial_update_parameters Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:57:01 UTC Severity: norm ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847382 qemu: CVE-2016-9846: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage while updating cursor Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:30:04 UTC Severity: i ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847496 qemu: CVE-2016-9913 CVE-2016-9914 CVE-2016-9915 CVE-2016-9916 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 19:15:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: pa ...
Debian Bug report logs - #846797 qemu: CVE-2016-9776: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 12:48:01 UTC S ...
Debian Bug report logs - #838850 qemu: CVE-2016-7161 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:27:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in versions ...
Debian Bug report logs - #832619 qemu: CVE-2016-5403: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on host via guest leading to DoS Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:21:07 UTC ...
Debian Bug report logs - #837316 qemu: CVE-2016-7170: vmware_vga: OOB stack memory access when processing svga command Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 13:21:01 UTC Seve ...
Debian Bug report logs - #838146 qemu: CVE-2016-7422: virtio: null pointer dereference in virtqueue_map_desc Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:57:13 UTC Severity: impo ...
Debian Bug report logs - #835031 qemu: CVE-2016-6835: buffer overflow in vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers() in vmxnet3 device emulation Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:15: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847381 qemu: CVE-2016-9845: display: virtio-gpu-3d: information leakage in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 18:30:01 U ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847957 qemu: CVE-2016-9923: char: use after free issue in char backend Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:57:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #836502 qemu: CVE-2016-7116: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 14:21:02 UTC Severity: normal Ta ...
Debian Bug report logs - #837603 qemu: CVE-2016-7157: mptsas: invalid memory access while building configuration pages Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:18:19 UTC Seve ...
Debian Bug report logs - #839834 qemu: CVE-2016-7909: net: pcnet: infinite loop in pcnet_rdra_addr Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:15:02 UTC Severity: normal Tags: s ...
Debian Bug report logs - #839835 qemu: CVE-2016-7908: net: Infinite loop in mcf_fec_do_tx Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:33:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags: security, ...
Debian Bug report logs - #841955 qemu: CVE-2016-8910: net: rtl8139: infinite loop while transmit in C+ mode Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:45:04 UTC Severity: norma ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847951 qemu: CVE-2016-9911: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:27:07 UTC Severity: important T ...
Debian Bug report logs - #841950 qemu: CVE-2016-8909: audio: intel-hda: infinite loop in processing dma buffer stream Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:57:01 UTC Sever ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847960 qemu: CVE-2016-9921 CVE-2016-9922 Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:09:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Fou ...
Debian Bug report logs - #837339 qemu: CVE-2016-7156: scsi: pvscsi: infintie loop when building SG list Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 18:12:01 UTC Severity: normal Ta ...
Debian Bug report logs - #834904 qemu: CVE-2016-6833: net: vmxnet3: use after free while writing Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:45:06 UTC Severity: important Tags: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847953 qemu: CVE-2016-9907: usb: redirector: memory leakage when destroying redirector Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:39:02 UTC Severity: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840236 qemu: CVE-2016-7995: usb: hcd-ehci: memory leak in ehci_process_itd Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 19:33:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840343 qemu: CVE-2016-8576: usb: xHCI: infinite loop vulnerability in xhci_ring_fetch Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:39:01 UTC Severity: n ...
Debian Bug report logs - #838147 qemu: CVE-2016-7421: scsi: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO requests Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:00:01 UTC Severity: nor ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840228 qemu: CVE-2016-7994: virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:12:01 UTC Severity: no ...
Debian Bug report logs - #840948 qemu: CVE-2016-8668: net: OOB buffer access in rocker switch emulation Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:12:04 UTC Severity: normal Ta ...
Debian Bug report logs - #842463 qemu: Various 9ps security issues (CVE-2016-9102 CVE-2016-9103 CVE-2016-9104 CVE-2016-9105 CVE-2016-9106) Package: qemu; Maintainer for qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for qemu is src:qemu (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Guido Günther <agx@sigx ...
Debian Bug report logs - #838145 qemu: CVE-2016-7423: scsi: mptsas: OOB access when freeing MPTSASRequest object Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:57:09 UTC Severity: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #847391 qemu: CVE-2016-9912: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage when destroying gpu resource Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:30:01 UTC Seve ...