CVE-2016-4002
Buffer overflow in the mipsnet_receive function in hw/net/mipsnet.c in QEMU, when the guest NIC is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
02 Description
Buffer overflow in the mipsnet_receive function in hw/net/mipsnet.c in QEMU, when the guest NIC is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-04-26 14:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 00:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-04-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1748012e7c486bfa1883da8b5f1aa3aaa5425ad48e5d603979428c4ba76e340b
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082
- www.securityfocus.com85992http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-48e72b7bc5http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201609-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160412 CVE Request: Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulatorhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-35d7b09908http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-75063477cahttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2974-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160412 Re: CVE Request: Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulatorhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- lists.gnu.org[Qemu-devel] 20160407 [PATCH] net: mipsnet: check packet length against bufferhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.6+dfsg-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- qemu Fixed in 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.24
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.