Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2016-6490 First vendor Publication 2016-12-09
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 4.4
Base Score 4.4 Environmental Score 4.4
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 4.4
Exploitabality Sub Score 0.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6490

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 153

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-14 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2781-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1234.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-26 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2589-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-26 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2628-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-a56fb613a8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201609-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
MISC http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7aed70144b4673fc26e73062064b...
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/9
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html

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