FKIE_CVE-2016-2538

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-16 18:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:44
Severity
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe3c546c5ff2a6210f9a4d8561cc64051ca8603e
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83336
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe3c546c5ff2a6210f9a4d8561cc64051ca8603e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83336
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
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