CVE-2016-2538 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2538?

CVE-2016-2538 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qemu Qemu, 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

Multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or obtain sensitive host memory information via a remote NDIS control message packet that is mishandled in the (1) rndis_query_response, (2) rndis_set_response, or (3) usb_net_handle_dataout function.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2538?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2538?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2538 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2538 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-12929 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Qemu Qemu vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2538, GHSA-fqw6-89c5-2q6q, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2538.