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CVE-2015-8701

CVE-2015-8701

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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.

CVSS 6.5 · Medium · EPSS 0.4% · Fix available

Published
Updated

Stack: system

Affected products and versions

  • n/a

    Versions
    • n/a: Affected

    No fix published

  • qemu Debian:12

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1:2.5+dfsg-3

    Update to 1:2.5+dfsg-3

  • qemu Debian:13

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1:2.5+dfsg-3

    Update to 1:2.5+dfsg-3

  • qemu Debian:14

    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1:2.5+dfsg-3

    Update to 1:2.5+dfsg-3

Original sources

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