Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6490

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-10 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:29:20
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.