CVE-2016-8668: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The rocker_io_writel function in hw/net/rocker/rocker.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit DMA buffer size.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.2 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2016-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.