CVE-2016-1981 — Infinite Loop in Qemu

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop10 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV6.0
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
QemuDebian QemuDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedDec 29
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/qemu< qemu 1:2.5+dfsg-5 (bookworm)
▶Debianqemu/qemu< 1:2.5+dfsg-5+3
▶Ubuntuqemu/qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.5.1.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0

Patches

Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-ch9p-9c28-4r3p: QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-1981: QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue↗2016-12-29
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OSV
qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities↗2016-02-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2016-02-03
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Red Hat
Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines↗2016-01-19
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Debian
CVE-2016-1981: qemu - QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerab...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1981 xen: qemu-kvm: Infinite loop and out-of-bounds transfer start in start_xmit() and e1000_receive_iov() [fedora-all]↗2016-01-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1981 qemu: qemu-kvm: Infinite loop and out-of-bounds transfer start in start_xmit() and e1000_receive_iov() [fedora-all]↗2016-01-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1981 Qemu: net: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines↗2016-01-14
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