PT-2016-7153 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Li Qiang · Published 2016-08-19 · Updated 2021-08-04 · CVE-2016-6888

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV: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.

DoS

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043

CVE-2016-6888

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

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 362

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6888 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3125-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17963 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7909 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7908 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1599-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8578 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4037 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00071 · Security Note
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