CVE-2016-7423: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mptsas_process_scsi_io_request function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with LSI SAS1068 Host Bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSASRequest objects.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

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