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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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

Updated: 2018-01-04T19:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2016-1981

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

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


Link: CVE-2016-1981

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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