CVE-2016-7422
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 10, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 9, 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 (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=973e7170dddefb491a48df5cba33b2ae151013a0
- [qemu-devel] 20160915 [PATCH] virtio: add check for descriptor's mapped addressmailing-list
- RHSA-2017:2392vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:3237vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201609-01vendor-advisory
- 92996vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20160916 Re: CVE request Qemu: virtio: null pointer dereference in virtqueu_map_descmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160916 CVE request Qemu: virtio: null pointer dereference in virtqueu_map_descmailing-list
- RHSA-2017:2408vendor-advisory
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