CVE-2016-9776

CVSS V2 Low 2.1 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9776
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2016-12-29T22:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-11-10T18:45:53
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-835 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.7.1
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 2.1
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9776
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9776
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:20:31 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:38:11 2016-12-29T22:59Z 2016-12-29T22:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 12:38:11 2020-11-10T18:45:53 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 12:38:11 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated