CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7161

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-10-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the .receive callback of xlnx.xps-ethernetlite in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a large ethlite packet.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (<= 2.6.2) • qemu qemu 2.7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References