CVE-2016-4002

high-risk
Published 2016-04-26

Buffer overflow in the mipsnet_receive function in hw/net/mipsnet.c in QEMU, when the guest NIC is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and QEMU crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a packet larger than 1514 bytes.

Do I need to act?

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12.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 88% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (9)

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Fedoraproject Qemu

References (22)

Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Mailing List https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
and 2 more references
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 12/34 · Low
Exposure 15/34 · Moderate