CVE-2016-10029

Publication date 27 February 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with Virtio GPU Device emulator support allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and process crash) via a scanout id in a VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT command larger than num_scanouts.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
qemu-kvm	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
qemu-kvm	Upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fe89fdebcaab696d525f2905b33d7b303111eade Upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=5e3d741c6a192b301692a44084f99876f0d6b643 Upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2fe760554eb3769d70f608a158474f728ba45ba6 Upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=acfc4846508a02cc4c83aa27799fd74ac280bdb2

Package

Patch details

qemu-kvm

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

CVE-2016-10029

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Patch details

Severity score breakdown

References

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