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LIN6-12249 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2015-8744

Created: Jan 12, 2017    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 19, 2017
Found In Version: 6.0.0.32
Fix Version: 6.0.0.33
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8744

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