CVE-2015-8701

Summary

CVECVE-2015-8701
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-10 18:53:00 UTC
DescriptionQEMU (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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-193

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
QEMU 'rocker.c' Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Bug 1286971 – CVE-2015-8701 Qemu: net: rocker: stack buffer overflow(off-by-one) in tx_consume routine CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check MLIST lists.gnu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201602-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900063 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
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