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CVE-2016-6833

CVE-2016-6833

EPSS 0.4%
Use-after-free vulnerability in the vmxnet3_io_bar0_write function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to check if the device is active.
Affected products
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References
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6c352ca9b4ee3e1e286ea9e8434bd8e69ac7d0d8https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01602.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/12/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93255