CVE-2016-2538
N/A
Published: June 16, 2016 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQEMU
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (9)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe3c546c5ff2a6210f9a4d8561cc64051ca8603eMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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