Security Advisory

CVE-2015-7295

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Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date November 9, 2015
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory