CVE-2016-7909

medium

Published 2016-10-05 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.4

Description

The pcnet_rdra_addr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by setting the (1) receive or (2) transmit descriptor ring length to 0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

44%

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	8.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.7.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-835

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.