CVE-2015-8744
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.07%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-8744
To remediate CVE-2015-8744, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/qemu—upgrade to 1:2.5+dfsg-1 or later
Is CVE-2015-8744 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:2.5+dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |