VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-5126

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.70%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-06-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the iscsi_aio_ioctl function in block/iscsi.c in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted iSCSI asynchronous I/O ioctl call.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references