QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit (tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS issue.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8578 QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit (tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS issue.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:20.868Z

Reserved: 2015-12-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8701

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.153

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-8701

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-12-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8701 - Bugzilla

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