| Name | CVE-2016-6490 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 832767 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:8.2.1+ds-2 | fixed |
| sid | 1:8.2.2+ds-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 | | | 832767 |
| qemu-kvm | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - qemu <not-affected> (Issue introduced later)
[wheezy] - qemu-kvm <not-affected> (Issue introduced later)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html
Introduced by: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=3b3b0628217e2726069990ff9942a5d6d9816bd7 (v2.6.0-rc0)