CVE-2016-4001

high

Description

Buffer overflow in the stellaris_enet_receive function in hw/net/stellaris_enet.c in QEMU, when the Stellaris ethernet controller is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU crash) via a large packet.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01334.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85976

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/4

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3a15cc0e1ee7168db0782133d2607a6bfa422d66

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-23

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.6

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04077