CVE-2016-4002

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
Description
Buffer overflow in the mipsnet_receive function in hw/net/mipsnet.c in QEMU, when the guest NIC is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and QEMU crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a packet larger than 1514 bytes.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-4002
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2016-04-26T14:59:04
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-12-14T19:54:34
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-120 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/120.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.6.2
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 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
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4002
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4002
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:30:30 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 09:13:09 2016-04-26T14:59Z 2016-04-26T14:59:04 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 09:13:09 2020-12-14T19:54:34 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 09:13:09 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated