CVE-2016-1981

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an infinite loop that could occur while processing data via transmit or receive descriptors in QEMU, specifically when the initial receive/transmit descriptor head is set outside the allocated descriptor buffer. A privileged user inside a guest could exploit this to crash the QEMU instance, resulting in a denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.