CWE Code: 20
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 2.1
CWE Name:  Improper Input Validation
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2016-12-29
Last Modified Date: 2017-11-04