FKIE_CVE-2016-2841
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-16 18:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:44
Severity
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 |
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