CVE-2016-2858

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2858
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2858.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2858
Downstream
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Published
2016-04-07T19:59:03.483Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:01:39.403418610Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages