CVE-2016-1981

medium

Published 2016-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-5`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-5`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-5`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-5`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-5`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.5.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-835

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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