CVE-2016-7157
Qemu: scsi: mptsas: invalid memory access while building configuration pages
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 31, 2016
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The (1) mptsas_config_manufacturing_1 and (2) mptsas_config_ioc_0 functions in hw/scsi/mptconfig.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSAS_CONFIG_PACK.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 3.5CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 · 2.7AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read