CVE-2016-5403 Information

Description

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1585.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1586.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1606.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1607.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1652.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1653.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1654.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1655.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1756.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1763.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1943.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92148 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036476 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-184.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358359 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5