| Name | CVE-2016-2538 |
| Description | Multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or obtain sensitive host memory information via a remote NDIS control message packet that is mishandled in the (1) rndis_query_response, (2) rndis_set_response, or (3) usb_net_handle_dataout function. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1599-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 815680 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.2.0+ds-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| qemu | source | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u8 | | DLA-1599-1 | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 | | | 815680 |
| qemu-kvm | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - qemu <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - qemu <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
[wheezy] - qemu-kvm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - qemu-kvm <end-of-life> (Not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03658.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120
Upstream commit: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fe3c546c5ff2a6210f9a4d8561cc64051ca8603e (v2.6.0-rc0)
Introduced by: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=6c9f886ceae5b998dc2b9af2bf77666941689bce (v0.10.0)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/22/3