Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8668

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-11-04 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:27:41
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The rocker_io_writel function in hw/net/rocker/rocker.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit DMA buffer size.