CVE-2016-2841

Description

An infinite-loop flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with NE2000 NIC emulation support. The flaw could occur when receiving packets over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU instance (denial of service).

Statement

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score2.32.1N/A
Attack VectorAdjacent NetworkLocalN/A
Access ComplexityMediumLowN/A
AuthenticationSingleNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactPartialPartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

CWE-835

Availability

Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Amplification

An infinite loop will cause unexpected consumption of resources, such as CPU cycles or memory. The software's operation may slow down, or cause a long time to respond.

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Hongke Yang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.) for reporting this issue.

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