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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-08-02T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:00:59.915Z

Reserved: 2016-06-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5403

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-08-02T16:59:03.153

Modified: 2021-08-04T17:15:35.690

Link: CVE-2016-5403

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-07-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5403 - Bugzilla