GHSA-m22w-qpwr-jxrj

GHSA-m22w-qpwr-jxrj PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676 url
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html url
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 url
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956 url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/1 url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/4 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2858 advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60253ed1e6ec6d8e5ef2efe7bf755f475dce9956 url
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84134 url
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 url

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