CVE-2015-8745

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.4.1 - Reachable Assertion

Title source: rule

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.

References (8)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-617
Status published

Affected Products (3)

qemu/qemu < 2.4.1
debian/debian_linux
n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026