CVE-2016-4964: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mptsas_fetch_requests function in hw/scsi/mptsas.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, and CPU consumption or QEMU process crash) via vectors involving s->state.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.6.2

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.