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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-12-29T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:21.486Z

Reserved: 2016-01-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8744

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.230

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:39:05.410

Link: CVE-2015-8744

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8744 - Bugzilla