CVE-2016-4952

NameCVE-2016-4952
DescriptionQEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) via vectors related to the (1) PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_RINGS or (2) PVSCSI_CMD_SETUP_MSG_RING SCSI command.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1599-1
Debian Bugs825210

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
trixie1:9.1.1+ds-2fixed
sid1:9.1.1+ds-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcewheezy(not affected)
qemusourcejessie1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u8DLA-1599-1
qemusource(unstable)1:2.6+dfsg-2825210
qemu-kvmsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

[wheezy] - qemu <not-affected> (VMware PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation introduced later)
- qemu-kvm <not-affected> (VMware PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation introduced later)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg03774.html
Introduced in: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=881d588a98bf0dce98ddb65c15aa0854c0ac41ed (v1.5.0-rc0)

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