CVE-2016-4952
Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: out-of-bounds access issue in pvsci_ring_init_msg/data routines
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · May 23, 2016
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while processing SCSI commands 'PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_RINGS' or 'PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_MSG_RING'. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 3.8AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write