Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7909

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-10-05 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:13:20
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The pcnet_rdra_addr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by setting the (1) receive or (2) transmit descriptor ring length to 0.