Medium severity · published Dec 29, 2016
CVE-2016-9776
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
through 2.7.1; 2.8.0; 2.8.0; 2.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9776
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9776
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Patch
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html
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