CVE-2016-2538

HIGH

QEMU < 2.5.0 - Denial of Service and Information Disclosure via USB Net Device Emulator

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or obtain sensitive host memory information via a remote NDIS control message packet that is mishandled in the (1) rndis_query_response, (2) rndis_set_response, or (3) usb_net_handle_dataout function.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83336
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-189
Status published
Products (1)
qemu/qemu < 2.5.0
Published Jun 16, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026