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.
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Information
Published : 2016-12-29 22:59
Updated : 2025-04-12 10:46
NVD link : CVE-2016-1981
Mitre link : CVE-2016-1981
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-1981
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Products Affected
qemu
- qemu
debian
- debian_linux
CWE
CWE-835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')