VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-2841
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…
MEDIUM 6.0EPSS 0.39%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.0 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.39% probability · 33th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- qemu/qemu · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84028
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84028
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.