CVE-2016-7422

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CVSS 3.1

6.0 medium

EPSS

<1%p30

Published

Dec 10, 2016 (Dec 10, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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 (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value.

Vendors: qemu opensuse redhat
Products: qemu, leap, openstack, virtualization
Weakness: CWE-120
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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