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CVE-2016-6490

CVE-2016-6490

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5fhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9