Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in QEMU's ne2000_receive Function

Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in QEMU's ne2000_receive Function

CVE-2015-5278 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to receiving packets.

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