CVE-2016-1981
MEDIUMQEMU - DoS
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (10)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0006
EPSS Percentile
19.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Classification
CWE
CWE-835
Status
published
Affected Products (4)
qemu/qemu
< 2.5.1.1
debian/debian_linux
debian/debian_linux
n/a/n/a
Timeline
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026