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medium6.0

CVE-2016-2841

The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial o…

Impact

The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via crafted values for the PSTART and PSTOP registers, involving ring buffer control.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
QemuQemu
through 2.5.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04

Weakness classification

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