CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7909

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Oct 05, 2016 | Modified: Nov 10, 2020
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
2.3 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 2.7.1 (including)
Qemu Ubuntu devel *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *
Qemu Ubuntu yakkety *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu precise *

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