CVE-2016-8909 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-8909?

CVE-2016-8909 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The intel_hda_xfer function in hw/audio/intel-hda.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an entry with the same value for buffer length and pointer position.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8909?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Leap, Qemu Qemu, Redhat Openstack, Redhat Virtualization.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8909?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-8909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-8909, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8909, GHSA-m9v3-pqj8-j8x7, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8909.