CVE-2016-2841

6.0 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.0). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.0 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2016-06-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
qemu:qemu

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=415ab35a441eca767d033a2702223e785b9d5190
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84028
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1

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