CVE-2016-6490
CVE-2016-6490
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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.
CVSS 4.4 · Medium · EPSS 0.4% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6490