CVE-2016-4001

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the stellaris_enet_receive function in hw/net/stellaris_enet.c in QEMU, when the Stellaris ethernet controller is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU crash) via a large packet.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23, 24
QEMU: through 2.5.1.1; 2.6.0-rc0, 2.6.0-rc1

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3a15cc0e1ee7168db0782133d2607a6bfa422d66
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85976
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01334.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3a15cc0e1ee7168db0782133d2607a6bfa422d66

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