vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5403: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 2, 2016 | Aug 30, 2017 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 2, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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