CVE-2016-5403
Quick Emulator (QEMU) built with the virtio framework is vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue. It was found that a malicious guest user could submit more requests than the virtqueue size permits. Processing a request allocates a VirtQueueElement results in unbounded memory allocation on the host controlled by the guest.
Find out more about CVE-2016-5403 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | High |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Low |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (kvm) | RHSA-2016:1943 | 2016-09-27 |
| RHEV Agents (vdsm) (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1586 | 2016-08-09 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2016:1606 | 2016-08-11 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2016:1585 | 2016-08-09 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1653 | 2016-08-23 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1763 | 2016-08-24 |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1607 | 2016-08-12 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1756 | 2016-08-24 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1652 | 2016-08-23 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1655 | 2016-08-23 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2016:1654 | 2016-08-23 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | xen | Fix deferred |