CVE-2016-1981
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.9%
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.
Affected configurations
References
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.html
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/10
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/1
www.securityfocus.com/bid/81549
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03454.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
Related
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.9%