CVE-2016-4002

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.

• CWE-120

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/11/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/12/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85992Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg01131.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 26, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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