CVE-2016-4002
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | affected | |
| fedora | 22 | affected | |
| fedora | 23 | affected | |
| fedora | 24 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.6.2"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4002.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4002
CWEs
CWE-120
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.