CWE Code: 189
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 2.1
CWE Name:  Numeric Errors
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2016-12-29
Last Modified Date: 2017-07-01