CVE-2015-8744
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 29, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 4, 2016
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.
Scores
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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
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871
- 79821vdb-entry
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b
- [oss-security] 20160104 CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crashmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160104 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crashmailing-list
- DSA-3471vendor-advisory
- 1034576vdb-entry
- GLSA-201602-01vendor-advisory
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