CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7512

9.0 CRITICAL Published 2016-01-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-01-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large packet.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (<= 2.4.1) • qemu qemu 2.5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 6.7 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat openstack 5.0 • redhat virtualization 3.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • oracle linux 6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References