Buffer Overflow Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006918
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. 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.

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