CVE-2016-1981 describes an infinite loop vulnerability in QEMU's e1000 NIC emulation, affecting Debian Linux and QEMU instances. A privileged guest user can trigger this denial-of-service by manipulating transmit or receive descriptor heads to fall outside allocated buffers, crashing the QEMU host. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this local attack requires low privileges and has a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low current threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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