CVE-2015-8745
Published: 4 January 2016
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.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Does not exist
|
| trusty |
Released
(2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22)
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| vivid |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
|
| wily |
Released
(1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2)
|
|
|
Patches: upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 |
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|
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| vivid |
Does not exist
|
|
| wily |
Does not exist
|
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