CVE-2016-9776

medium

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.

References

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium