CVE-2016-2538

HighCVSS 7.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 16, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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