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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DSA |
DSA-3471-1 | qemu security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2015-8622 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2891-1 | QEMU vulnerabilities |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:21.574Z
Reserved: 2016-01-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8745
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.260
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-8745
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN