CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8578
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• opensuse leap 42.2
• debian debian linux 8.0
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93474 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07143.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/14 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93474 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07143.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 Third Party Advisory