CVE-2016-2841

CVSS V2 Low 2.1 CVSS V3 Medium 6
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-2841
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-06-16T18:59:07
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-12T23:17:46
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.5.0
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 2.1
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • HIGH
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.5
  • Impact Score
  • 4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.html Vendor Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190 Vendor Advisory
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84028
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2841
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2841
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:51:02 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 09:59:35 2016-06-16T18:59Z 2016-06-16T18:59:07 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 09:59:35 2018-12-01T11:29:01 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 09:59:35 Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-13 00:05:51 2023-02-12T23:17:46 CVE Modified Date updated