FICHE CVE

CVE-2015-8701

Publiée le 2016-12-29 · Dernière modification le 2026-06-17

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit (tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS issue.

CVSS 3.16.5 MOYENNE

Type de faiblesse

CWE-193