CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2841

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2016-06-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via crafted values for the PSTART and PSTOP registers, involving ring buffer control.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (<= 2.5.0) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References