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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Qemu

PublishedDec 29, 2016

First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.7.1, 2.8.0	—
debian debian_linux	8.0	—

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