CVE-2016-1981 | BDVDB-2026-79965 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03454.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81549
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.