Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8744

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-29 22:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:21

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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