Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8744: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
12/29/2016
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
11/06/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
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