CVE-2015-8744

Publication date 4 January 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 15.10 wily
Fixed 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
qemu-kvm 15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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