Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's virtqueue_pop Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's virtqueue_pop Function

CVE-2016-5403 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.

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