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CVE-2016-8667

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8667 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU, affecting various distributions including Debian and openSUSE. A local guest OS administrator can trigger a divide-by-zero error and crash the QEMU process by providing a large interval timer reload value to the rc4030_write function. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability requires high privileges and has a high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.9.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-8667Low

Qemu: hw: dma: divide by zero error in set_next_tick

Oct 12, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02577.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/10/14/6
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/10/15/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93567
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry