UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8744

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8744

    Published: 4 Jan 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8744
    Aliases:
    USN-2891-1

    Summary:

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

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8744, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2891-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8744

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qemu

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22

    Affected versions

    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5
    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High