CVE-2016-1981

Medium

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing data via transmit or receive descriptors, provided the initial receive/transmit descriptor head (TDH/RDH) is set outside the allocated descriptor buffer. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance resulting in DoS.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Qemu

PublishedDec 29, 2016

First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.5.1.1	—
debian debian_linux	7.0, 8.0	—

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