CVE-2015-3215

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The NetKVM Windows Virtio driver allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via a crafted length value in an IP packet, as demonstrated by a value that does not account for the size of the IP options.

Affected products

RedHat Virtio-Win: all versions

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1043.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1044.html
https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/723416fa4210b7464b28eab89cc76252e6193ac1
https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/fbfa4d1083ea84c5429992ca3e996d7d4fbc8238
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2015-3215.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1043.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1044.html
https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/723416fa4210b7464b28eab89cc76252e6193ac1
https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/fbfa4d1083ea84c5429992ca3e996d7d4fbc8238
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2015-3215.html

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