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CVE-2015-8744
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.40%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 79821 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160104 CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160104 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3471 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1034576 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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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