fkie_cve-2016-7421
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-12-10 00:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
The pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr function in hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit process IO loop to the ring size.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 |
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