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CVE-2016-1981 PUBLISHED

QEMU (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.

EPSS 0.06% · 19.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.06%

19.3th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	qemu	0, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6

Timeline

Jan 22, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1981 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/10 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2891-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1981 third-party-advisory

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