Out-of-Bounds Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.55% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007207
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7295  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface.

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