SB2016080207 - Resource exhaustion in Xen

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SB2016080207 - Resource exhaustion in Xen

Published: August 2, 2016 Updated: July 28, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2016080207
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5403)

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The virtqueue_pop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by submitting requests without waiting for completion.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References