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CVE-2016-6835

Published: Dec 10, 2016 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
3.8 MODERATE
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
4.6 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6835
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

The vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers function in hw/net/vmxnet_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) by leveraging failure to check IP header length.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 2.6.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-14.el7 *
Qemu Ubuntu devel *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *
Qemu Ubuntu yakkety *

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