Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7423

4.4
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date October 10, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory