CVE-2016-8578

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.0
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedNov 4, 2016
First seenNov 4, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 2.7.1—
opensuse leap42.2—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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