vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-4002: qemu -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 26, 2016
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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