CVE-2016-5403
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1585.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1586.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1606.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1607.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1652.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1653.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1654.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1655.htmlAdvisory