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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
79706
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79706
GLSA-201602-01
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
[oss-security] 20151228 CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/28/6
[oss-security] 20151229 Re: CVE request Qemu net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/29/1
[qemu-devel] 20151226 [PATCH v2] net: rocker: fix an incorrect array bounds check
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04629.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286971
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286971




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