Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8578

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-11-04 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:27:40
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.