CVE-2015-1779

Published: 25 March 2015

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 8.6

Status

Package	Release	Status
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage





	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11)
	Patches: Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=a2bebfd6e09d285aa793cae3fb0fc3a39a9fee6e Upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2cdb5e142fb93e875fa53c52864ef5eb8d5d8b41
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage





	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist

Notes

Author	Note
sbeattie	websockets introduced in qemu 1.4

References

Bugs

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781250

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