CVE-2016-9776
Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · November 29, 2016
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 3CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 · 2.3AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')