CVE-2016-8910

MEDIUM6.0EPSS 0.09%
Published: 11/4/2016Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-8910DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8910

Description

The rtl8139_cplus_transmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)