vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6888: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

Integer overflow in the net_tx_pkt_init function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via the maximum fragmentation count, which triggers an unchecked multiplication and NULL pointer dereference.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
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