vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8668: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 4, 2016
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
Title
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