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CVE-2015-8744 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (qemu, qemu-kvm), 10 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): DNE 4, needs-triage 2, released 2, ignored 1, not-affected 1.
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.