Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5403

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-08-02 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:00:59
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.