CVE-2016-7421
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 10, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 9, 2016
Description
The pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr function in hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit process IO loop to the ring size.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [qemu-devel] 20160915 [PULL 07/17] scsi: pvscsi: limit process IO loop to ring sizemailing-list
- GLSA-201609-01vendor-advisory
- 92998vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20160916 Re: CVE Request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO requestsmailing-list
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d251157ac1928191af851d199a9ff255d330bec9
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security updatemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160916 CVE Request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO requestsmailing-list
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