CVE-2016-8667

medium
Published 2016-11-04 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The rc4030_write function in hw/dma/rc4030.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and QEMU process crash) via a large interval timer reload value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
60%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.2 Affected โ€”
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-4
sid Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-4
forky Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-4
bullseye Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-4
bookworm Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-4
8.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"}
qemuqemu2.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-369

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.