CVE-2016-7423

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The mptsas_process_scsi_io_request function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with LSI SAS1068 Host Bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSASRequest objects.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.7.1

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=670e56d3ed2918b3861d9216f2c0540d9e9ae0d5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92997
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376776
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03604.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=670e56d3ed2918b3861d9216f2c0540d9e9ae0d5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92997
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376776

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