CVE-2016-5106
First published: Wed May 25 2016(Updated: )
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds write access issue. It could occur while processing MegaRAID Firmware Interface(MFI) command to set controller properties in 'megasas_dcmd_set_properties'. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04340.html">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04340.html</a> Reference: ---------- -> <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/6">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/6</a>
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.6.2 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =16.04 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/26/8
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1339578
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04340.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1339581
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