Re: Re: CVE request Qemu: net: rtl8139: infinite loop while transmit in C+ mode

[P J P <ppandit () redhat com>]

+-- On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, cve-assign () mitre org wrote --+
| > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg05495.html
| >>
| >> RTL8139 ethernet controller in C+ mode supports multiple
| >> descriptor rings, each with maximum of 64 descriptors. While
| >> processing transmit descriptor ring in 'rtl8139_cplus_transmit',
| >> it does not limit the descriptor count and runs forever.
| 
| Use CVE-2016-8910.

This issue was reported by Mr Andrew Henderson of Intelligent Automation Inc.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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