CVE-2015-8744

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8744
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8744.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8744
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Published
2016-12-29T22:59:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:28Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

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 (CAPSYSRAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.

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Affected packages