CVE-2015-8745
MEDIUMQEMU < 2.4.1 - Denial of Service via VMXNET3 IMR Read
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4
Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
20.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-617
Status
published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
qemu/qemu
< 2.4.1
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026