PT-2016-7153

CVE-2016-6888

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Published

2016-08-19

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Updated

2021-08-04

Description by

CVSS 3.1
4.4
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the net tx pkt init function, which can cause a denial of service. This happens when the maximum fragmentation count triggers an unchecked multiplication and NULL pointer dereference, allowing local guest OS administrators to crash the QEMU process.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2017-1043
DLA-1599-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2642-1
RHSA-2017:2392
RHSA-2017:2408
SUSE-SU-2016:2473-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2507-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2589-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1
USN-3125-1
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