CVE-2015-8701: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.5.1.1

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.