CVE-2016-9776
First published: Fri Dec 02 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU KVM | <=2.7.1 | |
| QEMU KVM | =2.8.0-rc0 | |
| QEMU KVM | =2.8.0-rc1 | |
| QEMU KVM | =2.8.0-rc2 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1400830
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1399531
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