CVE-2016-6833
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-10 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:43
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the vmxnet3_io_bar0_write function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to check if the device is active.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| secalert@redhat.com | http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6c352ca9b4ee3e1e286ea9e8434bd8e69ac7d0d8 | ||
| secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/12/1 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/3 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93255 | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01602.html | Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 | Third Party Advisory |
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