CVE-2016-6490

Published: 12/10/2016 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 7/28/2016

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a