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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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

Updated: 2017-11-03T18:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2015-8744

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-02-13T00:55:13.277


Link: CVE-2015-8744

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