CVE-2016-2841

MEDIUM

QEMU < 2.5.1 - Denial of Service via NE2000 NIC Ring Buffer Control

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84028
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
qemu/qemu < 2.5.0
Published Jun 16, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026