VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8669

medium
Published 2016-11-04 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The serial_update_parameters function in hw/char/serial.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a value of divider greater than baud base.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
60%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.2 Affected —
— Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-1
8.0 Affected —
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.7.1"}
redhat redhatopenstack6.0
redhat redhatopenstack7.0
redhat redhatopenstack8
redhat redhatopenstack9
redhat redhatopenstack10
redhat redhatopenstack11
redhat redhatvirtualization4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-369

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.