| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 809313 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qemu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.1.1+ds-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qemu | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.5+dfsg-3 | | | 809313 |
| qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced after qemu 2.3)
[wheezy] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced after qemu 2.3)
[squeeze] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced after qemu 2.3)
- qemu-kvm <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced after qemu 2.3)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/28/6