CVE-2016-8578 (GCVE-0-2016-8578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-04 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.
Severity
6.0 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/8 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-1… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93474 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/201… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2016-09-27 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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