CVE-2016-4453
published 2016-06-01CVE-2016-4453: The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU…
PriorityP413medium4.4CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRHUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.42%
33.8th percentile
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.
Affected
14 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | qemu | < qemu 1:2.6+dfsg-3 (bookworm) | qemu 1:2.6+dfsg-3 (bookworm) |
| qemu | qemu | <= 2.6.0 | — |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 1:2.6+dfsg-3 | 1:2.6+dfsg-3 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 1:2.6+dfsg-3 | 1:2.6+dfsg-3 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 1:2.6+dfsg-3 | 1:2.6+dfsg-3 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 1:2.6+dfsg-3 | 1:2.6+dfsg-3 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 | 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.27 | 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.27 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 | 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.3 |
| qemu | qemu | >= 0 < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.4 | 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.4 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.14.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
osv6.7MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.7MEDIUM
vendor_debian4.4MEDIUM
vendor_redhat4.4MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-923w-8gr7-5984: The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-13
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 GHSA-923w-8gr7-5984: The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.
OSV
qemu, qemu-kvm regression
osv·2016-08-12·CVSS 6.7
CVE-2016-5403 [MEDIUM] qemu, qemu-kvm regression
qemu, qemu-kvm regression
USN-3047-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The patch to fix CVE-2016-5403
caused a regression which resulted in save/restore failures when virtio
memory balloon statistics are enabled. This update temporarily reverts the
security fix for CVE-2016-5403 pending further investigation. We apologize
for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSI
controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU
is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor
profile. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ub
OSV
qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities
osv·2016-08-04·CVSS 6.7
CVE-2016-4439 [MEDIUM] qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities
qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSI
controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU
is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor
profile. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-4439, CVE-2016-4441, CVE-2016-5238, CVE-2016-5338, CVE-2016-6351)
Li Qiang and Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the
VMWare VGA module. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
to obtain sensitive host memo
OSV
CVE-2016-4453: The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga
osv·2016-06-01·CVSS 4.4
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-4453: The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.
Ubuntu
QEMU regression
vendor_ubuntu·2016-08-12·CVSS 6.7
CVE-2016-5403 [MEDIUM] QEMU regression
Title: QEMU regression
Summary: USN-3047-1 introduced a regression in QEMU.
USN-3047-1 fixed vulnerabilities in QEMU. The patch to fix CVE-2016-5403
caused a regression which resulted in save/restore failures when virtio
memory balloon statistics are enabled. This update temporarily reverts the
security fix for CVE-2016-5403 pending further investigation. We apologize
for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSI
controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU
is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor
profile.
Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-08-04·CVSS 6.7
CVE-2016-4439 [MEDIUM] QEMU vulnerabilities
Title: QEMU vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.
Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled 53C9X Fast SCSI
controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU
is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor
profile. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-4439, CVE-2016-4441, CVE-2016-5238, CVE-2016-5338, CVE-2016-6351)
Li Qiang and Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the
VMWare VGA module. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this
issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of
Red Hat
Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
vendor_redhat·2016-05-30·CVSS 4.4
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
Package: kvm (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Will not fix
Package: xen (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: qemu-kvm (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Will not fix
Package: qemu-kvm-rhev (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Will not fix
Package: qemu-kvm
Debian
CVE-2016-4453: qemu - The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local gue...
vendor_debian·2016·CVSS 4.4
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-4453: qemu - The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local gue...
The vmsvga_fifo_run function in hw/display/vmware_vga.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a VGA command.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-3)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-3)
forky: resolved (fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-3)
sid: resolved (fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-3)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-3)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-05-30·CVSS 4.4
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine [fedora-all]
CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple support
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4453 xen: Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-05-30·CVSS 4.4
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-4453 xen: Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine [fedora-all]
CVE-2016-4453 xen: Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple su
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
bugzilla·2016-05-17·CVSS 4.4
CVE-2016-4453 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
CVE-2016-4453 Qemu: display: vmsvga: infinite loop in vmsvga_fifo_run() routine
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VMware-SVGA "chipset" emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing VGA commands via its FIFO buffer.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS.
Upstream patch
-> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05270.html
Reference:
-> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/2
Discussion:
Acknowledgments:
Name: Li Qiang (Qihoo 360 Inc.)
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Created attachment 1158193
Result info
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Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340746]
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Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340744]
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/2http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90928http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336650https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05270.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/30/2http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90928http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336650https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg05270.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
2016-06-01
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