CVE-2016-2841

Publication date 4 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1
	15.10 wily	Fixed 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
qemu-kvm	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.28

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
qemu	Other: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.html Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2974-1
QEMU vulnerabilities
12 May 2016