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.
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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00124}

epss

{'score': 0.00116}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-04-07T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:40:13.545Z

Reserved: 2016-03-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-2858

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-04-07T19:59:03.483

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-2858

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-01-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2858 - Bugzilla