VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-8578

CVSS score6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-11-04
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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