CVE-2016-1981

CVE Details

Release Date:

2016-01-19

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the e1000 NIC emulation supportis 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.

See more information about CVE-2016-1981 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	2.3	Base Metrics:	AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Adjacent network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Requires single instance	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (qemu-kvm)	ELSA-2016-2585	2016-11-09

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