CVE-2016-6834: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The net_tx_pkt_do_sw_fragmentation function in hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via a zero length for the current fragment length.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.6.2; version 2.7.0 only

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.