vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5403: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/02/2016
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
10/02/2024

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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