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.
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DSA-3471-1 | qemu security update |
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EUVD-2015-8621 | 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. |
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USN-2891-1 | QEMU vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:21.486Z
Reserved: 2016-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8744

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.230
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-8744


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