Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the i.MX Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing packets on the transmit queue in 'imx_fec_do_tx'. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading to DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg00380.html Reference: ---------- -> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/10
Acknowledgments: Name: Li Qiang (Qihoo 360 Inc.)
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1381182]
CVE assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/10