CVE-2016-4001: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the stellaris_enet_receive function in hw/net/stellaris_enet.c in QEMU, when the Stellaris ethernet controller is configured to accept large packets, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU crash) via a large packet.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only; version 24 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.5.1.1; version 2.6.0 only

Published 2016-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.