Security Advisory
CVE-2016-9776
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 29, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory