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CVE-2015-8745 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876 CVEIssue Tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4 CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 16 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-617Reachable Assertion[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
qemu qemu
<= 2.4.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
8.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-8745
NVD Published Date:
Dec 29, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-8745 Details - Not Deferred