CVE-2015-8744
Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%
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.
Products: qemu, debian_linux
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 12 | qemu | 1:2.5+dfsg-1 |
| Debian 13 | qemu | 1:2.5+dfsg-1 |
| Debian 14 | qemu | 1:2.5+dfsg-1 |
| Debian 8 | qemu | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5a |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 | xen | 4.4.4_02-32.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | qemu | 2.0.2-48.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | xen | 4.4.4_02-22.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 | qemu | 2.3.1-14.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 | xen | 4.5.2_06-7.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | xen | 4.4.4_02-32.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 | qemu | 2.0.2-48.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 | xen | 4.4.4_02-22.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 | qemu | 2.3.1-14.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 | xen | 4.5.2_06-7.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 | xen | 4.4.4_02-32.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 | qemu | 2.0.2-48.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 | xen | 4.4.4_02-22.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | qemu | 2.3.1-14.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | xen | 4.5.2_06-7.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 | xen | 4.4.4_02-32.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 | xen | 4.4.4_02-22.19.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 | xen | 4.5.2_06-7.1 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | qemu | 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | xen | 4.7.0_12-1.3 |