Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-QEMU-663197
  • published29 Dec 2016
  • disclosed29 Dec 2016

Introduced: 29 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9776  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.