CVE-2016-6490

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3