CVE-2016-5403

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS Score

Published: August 2, 2016 at 04:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM UTC

13 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux Desktop

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Severity

MEDIUM5.5

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.5%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

12.04 14.04 16.04

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

8.0

Linux · Oracledrupal

95%

5 6 7

Vm Server · Oracle

95%

3.4

QEMU · Qemu

95%

v ≤ 2.6.02.7.0 rc0

Enterprise Linux Desktop · Red Hatrubygems

95%

6.0 7.0

Enterprise Linux Server · Red Hatrubygems

95%

6.0 7.0

Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Red Hatrubygems

95%

7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7

Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Red Hatrubygems

95%

7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7

Enterprise Linux Server Tus · Red Hatrubygems

95%

7.2 7.3 7.6 7.7

Remediation

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