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Medium
CVE-2015-8745
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
qemu, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 8.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 29th, 2016
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.