CVE-2016-5126: Buffer Overflow

First published: Mon May 30 2016(Updated: )

Heap-based buffer overflow in the iscsi_aio_ioctl function in block/iscsi.c in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted iSCSI asynchronous I/O ioctl call.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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