CVE-2016-9776

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.7.1 - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule

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 (7)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 19.6%

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 (6)

qemu/qemu < 2.7.1

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 29, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026