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Bug 1400829 (CVE-2016-9776) - CVE-2016-9776 Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_fec_receive
Summary: CVE-2016-9776 Qemu: net: mcf_fec: infinite loop while receiving data in mcf_f...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-9776
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1399531 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1400830
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-02 07:58 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-07 07:41:28 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2016-12-02 07:58:31 UTC 
Quick Emulator(Qemu) 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.

Upstream patch
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05324.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/3
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2016-12-02 07:59:06 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Wjjzhang (tencent.com)
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2016-12-02 08:00:14 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1400830]
Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2017-01-16 18:38:10 UTC 
commit 77d54985b85a0cb760330ec2bd92505e0a2a97a9
Author: Prasad J Pandit <pjp>
Date:   Tue Nov 29 00:38:39 2016 +0530

    net: mcf: check receive buffer size register value
Comment 4 Prasad Pandit 2017-02-07 07:38:57 UTC 
*** Bug 1399531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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