CVE-2015-8701
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 29, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 29, 2015
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit (tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS issue.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20151228 CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds checkmailing-list
- [qemu-devel] 20151226 [PATCH v2] net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds checkmailing-list
- 79706vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20151229 Re: CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds checkmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286971
- GLSA-201602-01vendor-advisory
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