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    CVE-2016-2538

    Multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or obtain sensitive host memory information via a remote NDIS control message packet that is mishandled in the (1) rndis_query_response, (2) rndis_set_response, or (3) usb_net_handle_dataout function.

    Published:Feb 5, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Jun 16, 2016
    EPSS Score:0.00088
    CVSS Score:7.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Qemu
    Product
    Qemu

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

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    References

    http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe3c546c5ff2a6210f9a4d8561cc64051ca8603e
    http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83336
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
    http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe3c546c5ff2a6210f9a4d8561cc64051ca8603e
    http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83336
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.html
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01

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