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CVE-2016-4002

Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulator

Published Modified CWE 120
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat4.3AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (low).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 12qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 13qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 14qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 7qemu, qemu-kvmno fix listed
debian 8qemu1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u8
echoqemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
Red Hatlibcacard, libcacard-devel, libcacard-tools and 6 moreno fix listed
ubuntu 12.04qemu-kvm1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.28
ubuntu 14.04qemu2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24
ubuntu 14.04-ESMqemu2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24
ubuntu 15.10qemu1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.4
Show all 23 entries from 14 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 12qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 13qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 14qemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
debian 7qemuno fix listed
debian 7qemu-kvmno fix listed
debian 8qemu1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u8
echoqemu1:2.6+dfsg-2
Red Hatlibcacardno fix listed
Red Hatlibcacard-develno fix listed
Red Hatlibcacard-toolsno fix listed
Red Hatqemu-guest-agentno fix listed
Red Hatqemu-guest-agent-win32no fix listed
Red Hatqemu-imgno fix listed
Red Hatqemu-kvmno fix listed
Red Hatqemu-kvm-commonno fix listed
Red Hatqemu-kvm-toolsno fix listed
ubuntu 12.04qemu-kvm1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.28
ubuntu 14.04qemu2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24
ubuntu 14.04-ESMqemu2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24
ubuntu 15.10qemu1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.4
ubuntu 16.04qemu1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMqemu1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1

References

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