Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6833

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-10 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:43:37
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.