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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-12-29T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:17:50.031Z

Reserved: 2016-01-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1981

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.417

Modified: 2023-02-12T23:17:20.477

Link: CVE-2016-1981

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1981 - Bugzilla