vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-2857: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 11, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

The net_checksum_calculate function in net/checksum.c in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash) via the payload length in a crafted packet.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
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