CVE-2016-6833
Use-after-free vulnerability in the vmxnet3_io_bar0_write function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to check if the device is active.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 4.4 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Affected products
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6c352ca9b4ee3e1e286ea9e8434bd8e69ac7d0d8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/12/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93255
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01602.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
