CVE-2016-6888

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6888
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6888.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6888
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-12-10T00:59:09.370Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:11:26.144302Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Integer overflow in the nettxpktinit function in hw/net/nettx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via the maximum fragmentation count, which triggers an unchecked multiplication and NULL pointer dereference.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/qemu/qemu

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/qemu/qemu
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
529d45e151d82a772cd9b9af64bb25f88fba6567
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2d2e632ad00d11867c6c5625605b1fbc022dd62f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
69d490079f82f5ffe31fff426aaa580d5fec5fb7
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
53279c76cf071fed07a336948d37c72e3613e0b7
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5f0e775348082c355769a3df612e055abea61c06
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c1eb2ddf0f8075faddc5f7c3d39feae3e8e9d6b4
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
131b9a05705636086699df15d4a6d328bb2585e8
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
609d7596524ab204ccd71ef42c9eee4c7c338ea4
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
823a3f11fb8f04c3c3cc0f95f968fef1bfc6534f
Database specific 
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            "introduced": "0"
        },
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        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7.0-rc0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7.0-rc1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7.0-rc2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7.0-rc3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "8.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.1.1
v0.1.3
v0.1.4
v0.1.5
v0.1.6
v0.11.0-rc0
v0.12.0-rc0
v0.13.0-rc0
v0.14.0-rc0
v0.15.0-rc0
v0.2.0
v0.3.0
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.4.4
v0.5.0
v1.*
v1.0
v1.0-rc0
v1.0-rc1
v1.0-rc2
v1.0-rc3
v1.0-rc4
v1.1-rc0
v1.1-rc1
v1.1-rc2
v1.1.0
v1.1.0-rc2
v1.1.0-rc3
v1.1.0-rc4
v1.2.0
v1.2.0-rc0
v1.2.0-rc1
v1.2.0-rc2
v1.2.0-rc3
v1.3.0
v1.3.0-rc0
v1.3.0-rc1
v1.3.0-rc2
v1.4.0
v1.4.0-rc0
v1.4.0-rc1
v1.4.0-rc2
v1.5.0
v1.5.0-rc0
v1.5.0-rc1
v1.5.0-rc2
v1.5.0-rc3
v1.6.0
v1.6.0-rc0
v1.6.0-rc1
v1.6.0-rc2
v1.6.0-rc3
v1.7.0
v1.7.0-rc0
v1.7.0-rc1
v1.7.0-rc2
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0-rc0
v2.0.0-rc1
v2.0.0-rc2
v2.0.0-rc3
v2.1.0
v2.1.0-rc0
v2.1.0-rc1
v2.1.0-rc2
v2.1.0-rc3
v2.1.0-rc4
v2.1.0-rc5
v2.2.0
v2.2.0-rc0
v2.2.0-rc1
v2.2.0-rc2
v2.2.0-rc3
v2.2.0-rc4
v2.2.0-rc5
v2.3.0
v2.3.0-rc0
v2.3.0-rc1
v2.3.0-rc2
v2.3.0-rc3
v2.3.0-rc4
v2.4.0
v2.4.0-rc0
v2.4.0-rc1
v2.4.0-rc2
v2.4.0-rc3
v2.4.0-rc4
v2.5.0
v2.5.0-rc0
v2.5.0-rc1
v2.5.0-rc2
v2.5.0-rc3
v2.5.0-rc4
v2.6.0
v2.6.0-rc0
v2.6.0-rc1
v2.6.0-rc2
v2.6.0-rc3
v2.6.0-rc4
v2.6.0-rc5
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7.0-rc0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6888.json"
unresolved_ranges 
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            },
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            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9"
            }
        ]
    },
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            {
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            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10"
            }
        ]
    },
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            },
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            }
        ]
    }
]