vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6833: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the vmxnet3_io_bar0_write function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) by leveraging failure to check if the device is active.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
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