cvelist/2016/6xxx/CVE-2016-6490.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2016-6490",
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                "value": "The virtqueue_map_desc function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the descriptor buffer."
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            {
                "name": "[oss-security] 20160728 CVE Request Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4"
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                "name": "[oss-security] 20160728 Re: CVE Request Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9"
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            {
                "name": "GLSA-201609-01",
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                "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01"
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                "name": "http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f",
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                "url": "http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b6724795e5f"
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                "name": "[qemu-devel] 20160726 [PATCH] virtio: check vring descriptor buffer length",
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                "url": "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html"
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