CVE-2016-5403

Publication date 2 August 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
qemu-kvm 16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.31
xen 16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.7
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.12

Notes

mdeslaur

the patch for this CVE introduced a regression and was later reverted pending investigation. See LP: #1612089. proposed regression fixes: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01038.html http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02666.html

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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