Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8668

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MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

The rocker_io_writel function in hw/net/rocker/rocker.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit DMA buffer size.
Published Date November 4, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory