CVE-2016-9776

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-12-29 22:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-09-07 10:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

[oss-security] 20161202 CVE request Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20161202 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

94638

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829

Issue Tracking

[debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update

[qemu-devel] 20161130 [PATCH] net: mcf: check receive buffer size register value

Patch, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201701-49

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