CVE-2016-4002 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.0