# CVE-2016-10029: Denial of service in n/a

> Local guest users can crash the QEMU process via an out-of-bounds read in the Virtio GPU emulator, requiring the Virtio GPU device to be enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Feb 2017
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10029, GHSA-cj98-mx5x-vqvg, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10029

## What is CVE-2016-10029?

CVE-2016-10029 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qemu Qemu, published on 27 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with Virtio GPU Device emulator support allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and process crash) via a scanout id in a VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT command larger than num_scanouts.

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10029?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Qemu Qemu.

## How do I fix CVE-2016-10029?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2016-10029 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10029 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2016-10029 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2016-10029 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qemu Qemu, published on 27 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10029 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Qemu Qemu. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10029/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10029/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10029
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10029
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10029

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10029/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.