Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU with VMWARE PVSCSI Paravirtual SCSI Bus Emulation Support

Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU with VMWARE PVSCSI Paravirtual SCSI Bus Emulation Support

CVE-2016-4952 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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