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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,…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 4.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 52 days later
· 52 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- [oss-security] 20150918 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: virtio-net possible remote DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 82672 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150918 CVE request Qemu: net: virtio-net possible remote DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-d8510319c0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-d5c1048b47 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-3469 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-3470 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-fca1900745 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-3471 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-7224 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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