CVE-2015-8701

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.5

Exploit probability—

ProductQemu

PublishedDec 29, 2016

First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.5.1.1	—

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