CVE-2016-6490 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU, specifically within the virtqueue_map_desc function in hw/virtio/virtio.c. This flaw allows a local guest OS administrator to trigger an infinite loop and crash the QEMU process by providing a zero-length descriptor buffer. Rated Medium (CVSS 4.4), the vulnerability requires high privileges (PR:H) on the guest OS and results in high availability impact (A:H) to the host. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.7.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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