Critical (9.0). EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large packet.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.0 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)