QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the QEMU process on the host leading to DoS.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1497-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10577 QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the QEMU process on the host leading to DoS.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3261-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:03.469Z

Reserved: 2016-12-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9776

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.510

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-9776

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-11-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9776 - Bugzilla

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