Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007130
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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.

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CVSS Base Scores

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