CVE-2018-15746

MEDIUM

QEMU < 3.0.1 - Denial of Service via Seccomp Policy Mishandling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/28/6
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg04892.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2425

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
qemu/qemu < 3.0.1
Published Aug 29, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026