CVE-2016-7422

Publication date

2016-12-10 00:00:00

Family

redhat

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 (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value.