CVE-2016-2841

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.0
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedJun 16, 2016
First seenJun 16, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 2.5.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04—

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