# CVE-2015-8744: QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2016-12-29 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

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