CVE-2016-2841: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ne2000_receive function in the NE2000 NIC emulation support (hw/net/ne2000.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via crafted values for the PSTART and PSTOP registers, involving ring buffer control.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.5.0

Published 2016-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.