What is CVE-2016-8910?

CVE-2016-8910 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2016-11-04.

How severe is CVE-2016-8910?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Qemu

CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139_cplus_transmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count.

Published 2016-11-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (32.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Qemu
Debian Linux — versions 8.0
openSUSE Leap — versions 42.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 7.0
Red Hat OpenStack — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8
Red Hat Virtualization — versions 4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/24/5 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93844 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg05495.html (mailing-list, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/24/2 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8910?: CVE-2016-8910 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2016-11-04.
How severe is CVE-2016-8910?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.