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Debian: CVE-2016-9776: qemu -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-9776: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/29/2016
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/20/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-qemu

References

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