CVE-2015-8744

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-8744
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 00:55:00 UTC
DescriptionQEMU (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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3471-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
QEMU 'net/vmxnet3.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff CONFIRM git.qemu.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
QEMU VMXNET3 Packet Processing Error Lets Local Users on a Guest System Cause Denial of Service Conditions on the Host System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commitdiff MISC git.qemu.org
Bug 1270871 – CVE-2015-8744 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash via assert(2) call CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party 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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