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CVE-2016-9776
CVE-2016-9776
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.06% · 20.1th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.06%
20.1th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | qemu | *, 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.5, 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | qemu | 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu10, 1:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu1, 1:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu2 |
Exploit Intelligence
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update (circl)
- GLSA-201701-49 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20161202 CVE request Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive (circl)
- [oss-security] 20161202 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive (circl)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829 (circl)
- 94638 (circl)
- [qemu-devel] 20161130 [PATCH] net: mcf: check receive buffer size register value (circl)
Timeline
- Dec 29, 2016 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9776 third-party-advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3261-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9776 third-party-advisory