VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-8701

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-193: Off-by-one Error

Primary references