Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2016-7422
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6
EPSS
0.36%
Original Filing — NVD 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 (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via a large I/O descriptor buffer length value.