CVE-2015-8744

medium

Published 2016-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-1`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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