CVE-2016-7422 Information

Description

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 (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=973e7170dddefb491a48df5cba33b2ae151013a0 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92996 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03546.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.0