PT-2016-6952 · Qemu+2 · Qemu+2

Li Qiang · Published 2016-08-22 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6490

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop and QEMU process crash, by specifying a zero length for the descriptor buffer in the virtqueue map desc function.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-120

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1874

ALT-PU-2017-1043

CVE-2016-6490

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2642-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2589-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2628-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

References · 290

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6490 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1 · Vendor Advisory
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• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html · Patch
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