CVE-2015-8744

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.

Category

5.5
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.07%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871 third party advisory issue tracking
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821 third party advisory vdb entry
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3 third party advisory mailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6 third party advisory mailing list
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576 third party advisory vdb entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-8744?
CVE-2015-8744 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2015-8744?
To fix CVE-2015-8744, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2015-8744 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2015-8744 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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