CVE-2015-7295

QEMU < 2.4.1 - Denial of Service via Jumbo Frame Flood on Virtio-Net Interface

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/18/9
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82672
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/18/5
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169624.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169802.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169767.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

Scores

EPSS 0.0358
EPSS Percentile 87.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
fedoraproject/fedora 21
fedoraproject/fedora 22
qemu/qemu < 2.4.1
Published Nov 09, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026