CVE-2016-2392

medium
Published 2016-06-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The is_rndis function in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 does not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a remote NDIS control message packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2392

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg02553.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.6+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.6+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu2.5.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.