High
Security advisory
Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-17962
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Qemu has a Buffer Overflow in pcnet_receive in hw/net/pcnet.c because an incorrect integer data type is used.
osv:CVE-2018-17962
Complete source record
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