CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6835
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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
Description
The vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers function in hw/net/vmxnet_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) by leveraging failure to check IP header length.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (< 2.6.0)
• redhat virtualization 4.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=93060258ae748573ca7197204125a2670047896d git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-08/msg00077.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=93060258ae748573ca7197204125a2670047896d git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-08/msg00077.html Patch, Vendor Advisory