vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-7504: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 16, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU allows guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of packets in loopback mode.

Solutions

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Title
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