cve-2016-8578
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-11-04 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
Summary
The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/14Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93474Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07143.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/14Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93474Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07143.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11Third Party Advisory
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