CVE-2015-8701

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the tx consume routine when processing transmit descriptors with more than the allowed number of fragments. This can be exploited by a privileged user inside a guest to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance, resulting in a denial of service issue.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.