CVE-2016-1981
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 29, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 21, 2016
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
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [qemu-devel] 20160119 [PATCH] e1000: eliminate infinite loops on out-of-bounds transfer startmailing-list
- GLSA-201604-01vendor-advisory
- DSA-3469vendor-advisory
- DSA-3470vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160119 CVE request Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routinesmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570
- [oss-security] 20160122 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routinesmailing-list
- RHSA-2016:2585vendor-advisory
- DSA-3471vendor-advisory
- 81549vdb-entry
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