QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets in ‘mcf_fec_receive’. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the QEMU process on the host leading to DoS.
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