Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7156

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-10 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:50:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The pvscsi_convert_sglist function in hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging an incorrect cast.