CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8745
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It could occur while reading Interrupt Mask Registers (IMR). A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.4.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 git.qemu.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 git.qemu.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory