CVE-2016-1981

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-1981
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:17:00 UTC
DescriptionQEMU (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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3471-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE request Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3469-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE-2016-1981 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3470-1 qemu-kvm DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Bug 1298570 – CVE-2016-1981 Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
oss-security - CVE request Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
QEMU CVE-2016-1981 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201604-01) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000: eliminate infinite loops on out-of-bounds tr MLIST lists.gnu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900063 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
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