CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6855
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
Description
hw/ide/core.c in QEMU does not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allows guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.4.1)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 21
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• suse linux enterprise desktop 12
• suse linux enterprise server 12
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• arista eos
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168602.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169036.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169327.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169341.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167369.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3361 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3362 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/10/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/10/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76691 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg02479.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168602.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169036.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169327.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169341.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167369.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3361 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3362 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/10/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/10/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76691 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg02479.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14 Third Party Advisory