Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's net_tx_pkt_do_sw_fragmentation Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's net_tx_pkt_do_sw_fragmentation Function

CVE-2016-6834 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The net_tx_pkt_do_sw_fragmentation function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.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 current fragment length.

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