CVE - CVE-2015-8744

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-8744	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:1034576 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576 MISC:79821 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821 MISC:DSA-3471 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 MISC:GLSA-201602-01 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 MISC:[oss-security] 20160104 CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3 MISC:[oss-security] 20160104 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6 MISC:http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b URL:http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20160104	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160104)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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