01 Record

CVE-2015-8744

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 0.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Ranks above 32.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2016-12-29 22:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-01-04

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
CWE-617Reachable AssertionBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

a974cb53b30c4723b48fe86539b7ccb75fbc1cc8e5f8874c82dbad8c5dfbcd74

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

debiandebian_linuxNot specified—

qemuqemuNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

redhatopenstackNot specified—

06 References

bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871x_refsource_CONFIRM
www.securityfocus.com79821http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79821vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
git.qemu.orghttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a7278b36fcab9af469563bd7bx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160104 CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crashhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160104 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crashhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/6mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
www.debian.orgDSA-3471http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
www.securitytracker.com1034576http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034576vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201602-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

01 Record index

CVE-2015-8744

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References

02 Records

CVE-2015-8744

02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

04 Metadata

05 Affected products

06 References