CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1779
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.2.1)
• qemu qemu 2.3.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 21
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.1
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.2
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.3
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux eus 7.7
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.3
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.7
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.3
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.7
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• redhat virtualization 3.0
• oracle linux 7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154656.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155196.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00033.html Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html Broken Link
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1931.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1943.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/24/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/09/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73303 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033975 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04894.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04895.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04896.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154656.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155196.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00033.html Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html Broken Link
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1931.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1943.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/24/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/09/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73303 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033975 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04894.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04895.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04896.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory