Security Advisory
CVE-2016-7422
6
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 (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value.
Published Date
December 10, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory