Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (25th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-517301
- published 8 Jun 2017
- disclosed 8 Jun 2017
Introduced: 8 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9310 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with the e1000e NIC emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors related to setting the initial receive / transmit descriptor head (TDH/RDH) outside the allocated descriptor buffer.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9310
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=4154c7e03fa55b4cf52509a83d50d6c09d743b7
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/31/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452620
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98766
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9310
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4154c7e03fa55b4cf52509a83d50d6c09d743b7