CVE-2016-6490
First published: Sat Dec 10 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.6.2 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.7.0-rc0 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/event
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/tags
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/remedy
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/qemu
- canonical/qemu qemu
- version/qemu qemu/2.6.2
- version/qemu qemu/2.7.0-rc0