CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8744
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.4.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b git.qemu.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b git.qemu.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory