CVE-2015-8744
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8744
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8744.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8744
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-29T22:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-04T11:45:48.670932Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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 (CAPSYSRAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b