CVE-2016-6490
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 10, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 28, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20160728 CVE Request Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_popmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160728 Re: CVE Request Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_popmailing-list
- GLSA-201609-01vendor-advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f
- [qemu-devel] 20160726 [PATCH] virtio: check vring descriptor buffer lengthmailing-list
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