Improper Input Validation Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.5+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-515353
- published 29 Dec 2016
- disclosed 29 Dec 2016
Introduced: 29 Dec 2016
CVE-2015-8744 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.5+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8744
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8744
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7b