CVE-2016-9776
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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| qemu / qemu | - | 2.7.1.x |
| qemu / qemu | 2.8.0-rc0 | 2.8.0-rc0.x |
| qemu / qemu | 2.8.0-rc1 | 2.8.0-rc1.x |
| qemu / qemu | 2.8.0-rc2 | 2.8.0-rc2.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 8.0 | 8.0.x |
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94638
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400829
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
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