Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's Virtio-net Support

Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's Virtio-net Support

CVE-2015-7295 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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