CVE-2016-2392 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2392?

CVE-2016-2392 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The is_rndis function in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 does not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a remote NDIS control message packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2392?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2392?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2392 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2392 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2392, GHSA-858x-x5xv-4rpm, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2392.