VDB
CVE-2015-8744
CVE-2015-8744
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 0.39% · 31.2th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.39%
31.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | qemu | 0, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6 |
Timeline
- Jan 4, 2016 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 13, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 11, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 5, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 28, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8744 third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2891-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8744 third-party-advisory