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CVE-2016-2857 — HIGH severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2016-2857

8.4

HIGHCVSS v3

Published

April 12, 2016

CVSS v2

3.6 LOW

Affected

5 projects

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

Description

The net_checksum_calculate function in net/checksum.c in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash) via the payload length in a crafted packet.

qemu-project/qemu

GitLabQEMU main repository: Please see https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

<= 2.5.1.1NVD

qemu/qemu

GitHubOfficial QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

<= 2.5.1.1NVD

More on this CVE

NVD↗GitHub Advisory↗

bonzini/qemu

GitHubMy QEMU tree

<= 2.5.1.1NVD

birkelund/qemu

<= 2.5.1.1NVD

thuth/qemu

GitLabQEMU mirror for GitLab CI: Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

<= 2.5.1.1NVD