CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9776
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the QEMU process on the host leading to DoS.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• qemu qemu 2.8.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory