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LIN6-11703 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2016-5403

Created: Aug 15, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 22, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0
Fix Version: 6.0.0.31
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

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. 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5403

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