CVE-2015-8745

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedDec 29, 2016
First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 2.4.1—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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