Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.8.0)


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-3007103
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Nov 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-8578  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.8.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.

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