Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8744
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 29, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory