CVE-2016-7422: opensuse leap
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-7422 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) vulnerability in opensuse leap. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2Timeline
- 10-12-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.0MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.36%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
30%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.36% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, administrative account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat2 products
- openstack6.0 | 7.0 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
- virtualization4.0
Debian1 product
- qemu< 1:2.7+dfsg-1
Opensuse1 product
- leapEOL42.2
Qemu1 product
- qemu≤ 2.7.1
4 vendors · 5 products
References
10 links- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg03546.htmlMailing ListX Refsource MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
