CVE-2016-5403

medium

Description

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.

References

Advisories

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358359

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-184.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036476

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92148

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1943.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1763.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1756.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1655.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1654.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1653.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1652.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1607.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1606.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1586.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1585.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-02

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H