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CVE-2015-8744

Published: 12/29/2016 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 1/4/2016

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-qemu-img nbd-tool

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a n/a

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