VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-8744
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.40%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.40% probability · 33th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.