CVE-2016-2841

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CVSS 3.0

6.0 medium

EPSS

<1%p32

Published

Jun 16, 2016 (Jun 16, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via crafted values for the PSTART and PSTOP registers, involving ring buffer control.

Vendors: qemu canonical
Products: qemu, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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