CVE-2016-8668

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

0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 33.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. 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.

Published

2016-11-04 21:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:27Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-10-15

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
• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

5e3c16be9b75d9c4dfd9f9df5129f06bbe0d6770769e13fe2ea20e9718c81e84

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161015 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: OOB buffer access in rocker switch emulationhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/15/9mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201611-11https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161014 CVE request Qemu: net: OOB buffer access in rocker switch emulationhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/14/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.gnu.org[qemu-devel] 20161012 [PATCH] net: rocker: set limit to DMA buffer sizehttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02501.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:3237http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• www.securityfocus.com93566http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93566vdb-entryx_refsource_BID