CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139_cplus_transmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-11-04

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Leap (Opensuse)
• Qemu (Qemu)
• Openstack (Redhat)
• Virtualization (Redhat)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/24/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/24/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93844
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg05495.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11