CVE-2015-7295: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 21 only; version 22 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.4.1

Published 2015-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.