CVE-2016-9776
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.42% probability · 36th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.