CVE-2016-4001 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4001?

CVE-2016-4001 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4001?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4001?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-4001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4001, GHSA-gq5h-q589-jxr5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4001.