Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6490
4.4
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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 (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the descriptor buffer.
Published Date
December 10, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory