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CVE-2015-7504
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of…
High8.8EPSS 0.64%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of packets in loopback mode.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.64% · top 49% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- RHSA-2015:2694 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1034268 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 78227 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151130 CVE-2015-7504 Qemu: net: pcnet: heap overflow vulnerability in loopback mode (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [Qemu-devel] 20151130 [PATCH for 2.5 1/2] net: pcnet: add check to validate receive data size(CVE-2015-7504) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-162.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3469 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-3470 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201604-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3471 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:2696 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:2695 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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