CVE-2016-8909

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

The intel_hda_xfer function in hw/audio/intel-hda.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an entry with the same value for buffer length and pointer position.

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-11-04 21:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-12-01 11:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:3237

[oss-security] 20161024 CVE request Qemu: audio: intel-hda: infinite loop in processing dma buffer stream

Patch, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20161024 Re: CVE request Qemu: audio: intel-hda: infinite loop in processing dma buffer stream

Third Party Advisory

93842

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHSA-2017:2392

RHSA-2017:2408

[debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security update

[qemu-devel] 20161020 [PATCH] audio: intel-hda: check stream entry count during transfer

Patch

GLSA-201611-11

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