Unscored severity · published Nov 9, 2015
CVE-2015-7295
hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allows remote attackers to cause a denial…
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CVSS
4.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.8% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
21; 22 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
through 2.4.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7295
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7295
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169624.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169767.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169802.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
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