Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU NE2000 NIC Emulation

CVE-2016-2841 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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