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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Published : 2016-12-29 22:59
Updated : 2025-04-12 10:46
NVD link : CVE-2015-8744
Mitre link : CVE-2015-8744
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2015-8744
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Products Affected
qemu
- qemu
debian
- debian_linux
CWE
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation