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CVE-2016-6490 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2016-6490

4.4

MEDIUMCVSS v3

Published

December 10, 2016

CVSS v2

2.1 LOW

Affected

5 projects

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

Description

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.

qemu-project/qemu

GitLabQEMU main repository: Please see https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

= 2.7.0, <= 2.6.2NVD

qemu/qemu

GitHubOfficial QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

= 2.7.0, <= 2.6.2NVD

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bonzini/qemu

GitHubMy QEMU tree

= 2.7.0, <= 2.6.2NVD

birkelund/qemu

= 2.7.0, <= 2.6.2NVD

thuth/qemu

GitLabQEMU mirror for GitLab CI: Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

= 2.7.0, <= 2.6.2NVD