CVE-2016-2538 (GCVE-0-2016-2538)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-16 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83336 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/201… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2016-02-16 00:00
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