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CVE-2016-1981
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-29T22:59:00.417 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:01.507

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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