CVE-2016-1981

MEDIUM

QEMU - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

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