CVE-2016-6888 (GCVE-0-2016-6888)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-10 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:43
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47882fa4975bf0b58dd74474329fdd7154e8f04c
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92556 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03176.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47882fa4975bf0b58dd74474329fdd7154e8f04c
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92556 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03176.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
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