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CVE-2015-7295

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7295 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU's virtio-net component, affecting various Debian and Fedora distributions running QEMU. This flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust guest network resources by flooding the tuntap or macvtap interface with jumbo frames, specifically when big or mergeable receive buffers are unsupported. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it represents a medium-severity issue that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability for the guest network. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0493 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7295Moderate

Qemu: net: virtio-net possible remote DoS

Sep 18, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169624.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169767.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169802.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201602-01
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3469
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3470
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3471
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/09/18/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/09/18/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/82672
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry