CVE-2015-8701

An off-by-one vulnerability was discovered in the QEMU emulator built with Rocker-switch emulation support. The flaw occurred when processing transmit(tx) descriptors in the 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor had more than the allowed fragments (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16).

This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

This issue does not affect the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

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