CVE-2016-8578

Publication date

2016-11-04 21:00:00

Family

redhat

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.