QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit (tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS issue.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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

Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01

Reserved: 2015-12-29T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2015-8701

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.153

Modified: 2020-11-10T18:53:53.663


Link: CVE-2015-8701

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