CVE-2016-2841 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190 http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84028 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.0