PT-2016-7319 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3
Qinghao Tang
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Published
2016-11-09
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Updated
2024-06-15
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CVE-2016-7422
CVSS v3.1
6.0
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/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 a NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash. This is achieved by providing a large I/O descriptor buffer length value to the
virtqueue map desc function in hw/virtio/virtio.c.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
DoS
Buffer Overflow
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Qemu
Suse
Ubuntu