GHSA-f98x-7m57-3xg7

GHSA-f98x-7m57-3xg7 PUBLISHED CVSS 4.400000095367432 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

The pcnet_rdra_addr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by setting the (1) receive or (2) transmit descriptor ring length to 0.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

4.400000095367432

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-f98x-7m57-3xg7

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References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/03/6 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7909 advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html url
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/03/3 url
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg07942.html url
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 url
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93275 url

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