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CVE-2016-4002

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Buffer overflow in the mipsnet_receive function in hw/net/mipsnet.c in QEMU, when the guest NIC is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and QEMU crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a packet larger than 1514 bytes.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published4/26/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxdebian:debian_linuxfedoraproject:fedoraqemu:qemu

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082(secalert@redhat.com)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html(secalert@redhat.com)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html(secalert@redhat.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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