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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2016-6490
HistoryDec 10, 2016 - 12:59 a.m.

Buffer overflow

2016-12-1000:59:00
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6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.7%

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.

CPENameOperatorVersion
qemueq2.7.0 rc0
qemule2.6.2

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.7%