Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6351

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-09-07 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:29:19
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The esp_do_dma function in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with ESP/NCR53C9x controller emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors involving DMA read into ESP command buffer.