CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-2858
QEMU, when built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) back-end support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (process crash) via an entropy request, which triggers arbitrary stack based allocation and memory corruption.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-331
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- qemu:qemu