CVE-2016-9776

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49