CVE-2015-8744 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2015-8744: 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.

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2015-8744 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

qemu→ fixed in1:2.5+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y qemu
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

qemu→ fixed in1:2.5+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y qemu
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

qemu→ fixed in1:2.5+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y qemu
```

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