CVE-2016-6490 (GCVE-0-2016-6490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29
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Summary
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.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-07-26 00:00
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