CVE-2016-8668

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CVSS 3.1

6.0 medium

EPSS

<1%p33

Published

Nov 4, 2016 (Nov 4, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The rocker_io_writel function in hw/net/rocker/rocker.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit DMA buffer size.

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

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