CVE-2016-7161

critical
Published 2016-10-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the .receive callback of xlnx.xps-ethernetlite in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a large ethlite packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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-2016-7161

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7161.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01877.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01598.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.7+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.7+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.7+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.7+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.7+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.6.2"}
qemuqemu2.7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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