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CVE-2016-2841
The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS…
Medium6.0EPSS 0.39%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- [oss-security] 20160302 CVE request Qemu: net: ne2000: infinite loop in ne2000_receive (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 84028 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201609-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20160226 Re: [PATCH v2] net: ne2000: check ring buffer control registers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2974-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [qemu-stable] 20160329 [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.1 Stable released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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