CVE-2016-6490

medium

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 (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the descriptor buffer.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium