The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to the implementation of the VMWARE Paravirtual SCSI PVSCSI mechanism. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure by manipulating the PVSCSICMDSETUPRINGS or PVSCSICMDSETUPMSGRING command...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4952

QEMU aka Quick Emulator, when built with VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access via vectors related to the 1 PVSCSICMDSETUPRINGS or 2 PVSCSICMDSETUPMSGRING SCSI command...