cve-2016-6490
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-10 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:29
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The virtqueue_map_desc function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the descriptor buffer.
References
▼ | URL | Tags | |
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secalert@redhat.com | http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f | ||
secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html | Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 | Third Party Advisory |
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