CVE-2015-8744

A reachable-assertion flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with VMWARE-VMXNET3 paravirtualized NIC emulator support. The flaw occurs if a guest sends a Layer-2 packet that was smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance, resulting in denial of service.

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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