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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-8578: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-8578: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/23/2020

Description

The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

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