CVE-2015-8744

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 29, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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