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CVE ID: CVE-2015-8701

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.

Test IDs: None available

Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8701
BugTraq ID: 79706
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79706
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/28/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/29/1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04629.html

CVE ID:	CVE-2015-8701
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.
Test IDs:	None available
Cross References:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8701 BugTraq ID: 79706 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79706 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/28/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/29/1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04629.html