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.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1599-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3931 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2974-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:40:13.545Z

Reserved: 2016-03-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-2858

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-04-07T19:59:03.483

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-2858

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-01-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2858 - Bugzilla

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