CVSS 3.0
8.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-1714
The (1) fw_cfg_write and (2) fw_cfg_read functions in hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c in QEMU before 2.4, when built with the Firmware Configuration device emulation support, allow guest OS users with the CAP_SYS_RAWIO privilege to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid current entry value in a firmware configuration.
Severity
- EPSS
- 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- oracle:linux
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:openstack