CVE-2015-8701

Publication date 29 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qemu	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
qemu-kvm	15.10 wily	Not in release
	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
qemu	Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=007cd223de527b5f41278f2d886c1a4beb3e67aa

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H