Name: CVE-2016-9776: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-12-29T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-9776, CWE-835, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.0042

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade qemu	Feb 20, 2019	Dec 29, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade app-emulation/qemu.	Oct 30, 2017	Dec 29, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade qemu-hw-display-qxlUpgrade qemu-skibootUpgrade qemu-hw-display-virtio-vgaUpgrade kvmUpgrade qemu-ui-cursesUpgrade qemu-sgabiosUpgrade xen-libs-32bitUpgrade xen-doc-pdfUpgrade qemu-x86Upgrade qemu-ui-openglUpgrade xen-kmp-defaultUpgrade xen-doc-htmlUpgrade qemu-audio-spiceUpgrade qemu-ui-spice-appUpgrade xen-libsUpgrade qemuUpgrade qemu-s390xUpgrade qemu-toolsUpgrade xen-develUpgrade qemu-ipxeUpgrade qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpuUpgrade xen-tools-domUUpgrade qemu-armUpgrade qemu-chardev-spiceUpgrade qemu-audio-ossUpgrade qemu-chardev-baumUpgrade qemu-langUpgrade qemu-ui-spice-coreUpgrade qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccwUpgrade xenUpgrade xen-kmp-paeUpgrade xen-toolsUpgrade qemu-audio-alsaUpgrade qemu-vgabiosUpgrade qemu-block-rbdUpgrade qemu-block-iscsiUpgrade qemu-guest-agentUpgrade qemu-s390Upgrade qemu-audio-paUpgrade qemu-hw-usb-redirectUpgrade qemu-ppcUpgrade qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pciUpgrade qemu-kvmUpgrade qemu-block-curlUpgrade qemu-seabiosUpgrade qemu-block-sshUpgrade qemu-microvmUpgrade qemu-ui-gtkUpgrade qemu-ksm	Jan 3, 2017	Dec 29, 2016
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade qemu-system-s390xUpgrade qemu-system-mipsUpgrade qemu-systemUpgrade qemu-system-aarch64Upgrade qemu-system-sparcUpgrade qemu-system-armUpgrade qemu-system-miscUpgrade qemu-system-x86Upgrade qemu-system-ppc	Apr 21, 2017	Dec 29, 2016

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CVSS Details

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