VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2857

high
Published 2016-04-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.4

Description

The net_checksum_calculate function in net/checksum.c in QEMU allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash) via the payload length in a crafted packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
80%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:2.6+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 1:2.6+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 1:2.6+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 1:2.6+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 1:2.6+dfsg-1
8.0 Affected —
redhat Red Hat Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.7 Affected —
7.6 Affected —
7.5 Affected —
7.4 Affected —
7.3 Affected —
7.0 Not affected —
6.0 Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.5.1.1"}
redhat redhatopenstack5.0
redhat redhatvirtualization3.0
redhat redhatvirtualization4.0
redhat redhatopenstack6.0
redhat redhatopenstack7.0
redhat redhatopenstack8
redhat redhatopenstack9

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.