Buffer Overflow Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1959694
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 7 Apr 2016
Introduced: 7 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-4002 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
qemu-guest-agent
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent
package and not the qemu-guest-agent
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
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 corruption and QEMU crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a packet larger than 1514 bytes.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4002
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1