Resource Exhaustion Affecting kvm-debuginfo package, versions <0:83-276.el5_11


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KVMDEBUGINFO-9859990
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed27 Jul 2016

Introduced: 27 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 kvm-debuginfo to version 0:83-276.el5_11 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:1943.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kvm-debuginfo package and not the kvm-debuginfo package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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