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CVE-2016-7909 json

The pcnet_rdra_addr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of servi…

published 2016-10-05 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8758

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The pcnet_rdra_addr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by setting the (1) receive or (2) transmit descriptor ring length to 0.

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:2.8+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7909

  • qemu Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30
  • qemu Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7909

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3, OpenStack Cloud 5 +2 more 4.2.5_21-30.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 4.4.4_10-43.5
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +1 more 4.5.5_02-22.3.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2, SLED 12 SP2 +1 more 4.7.1_02-25.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 2.3.1-24.6
  • kvm SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.4.2-50.1
  • qemu SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +1 more 2.6.2-31.2
  • xen SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12-LTSS 4.4.4_05-22.25.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:3273-1SUSE-SU-2016:3174-1SUSE-SU-2016:3156-1SUSE-SU-2016:3083-1SUSE-SU-2016:3067-1SUSE-SU-2016:3044-1

  • qemu openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.1.0-32.1
  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.15.1_01-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7909 updated cvss 3.0

Qemu: net: pcnet: infinite loop in pcnet_rdra_addr()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-kvm-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools, libcacard-tools, +2 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm, xen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) qemu-kvm-rhev Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, libcacard-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, libcacard-devel-rhev, libcacard-tools-rhev, +1 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, libcacard-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, libcacard-devel-rhev, libcacard-tools-rhev, +1 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, libcacard-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, libcacard-devel-rhev, libcacard-tools-rhev, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.