CVE-2016-5403
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-07-27 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows localguest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.
See more information about CVE-2016-5403 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 2.3 |
| Vector String: | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Adjacent Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (kvm) | ELSA-2016-1943 | 2016-09-27 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (qemu-kvm) | ELSA-2016-1585 | 2016-08-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (qemu-kvm) | ELSA-2016-1606 | 2016-08-11 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (qemu-kvm) | OVMSA-2016-0096 | 2016-08-09 |
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