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CVE-2015-8701 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286971 CVEIssue Tracking
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04629.html CVEPatchVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/28/6 CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/29/1 CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 12 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-193Off-by-one Error[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
qemu qemu
<= 2.5.1.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-8701
NVD Published Date:
Dec 29, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-8701 Details - Not Deferred