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CVE-2016-2538 (GCVE-0-2016-2538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-16 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
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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)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-02-16 00:00
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