CVE-2016-6490

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank Li Qiang (360.cn Inc.) for reporting this issue.", "bugzilla": {"description": "Qemu: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop", "id": "1361427", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361427"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "2.3", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P", "status": "draft"}, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "2.4", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-835", "details": ["The virtqueue_map_desc function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the descriptor buffer."], "name": "CVE-2016-6490", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "xen", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:5::el6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:10", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "qemu-kvm-rhev", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)"}], "public_date": "2016-07-27T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6490\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6490"], "threat_severity": "Low"}

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