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qemu: local DoS with SCSI CD-ROM

Published Apr 1, 2014

Description

Buffer overflow in hw/scsi-disk.c in the SCSI subsystem in QEMU before 0.15.2, as used by Xen, might allow local guest users with permission to access the CD-ROM to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via a crafted SAI READ CAPACITY SCSI command. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when root has manually modified certain permissions or ACLs.

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Red Hat statement

This issue only affects qemu as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen packages. The versions of the qemu/kvm as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are not affected.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Apr 1, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Aug 30, 2011
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Sep 7, 2011