CVE-2016-7161

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the .receive callback of xlnx.xps-ethernetlite in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a large ethlite packet.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/23/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/23/6

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01877.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01598.html

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0d1cbdacff5df4ded16b753b38fdd9da6092968

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-10-05

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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