VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-1981
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.44%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.44% probability · 38th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81549Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570Issue Tracking
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03454.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81549Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570Issue Tracking
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03454.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.