vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-5403: Important: kvm security update ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 2, 2016
Added
Aug 9, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solutions

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