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CVE-2015-8745
Published: Dec 29, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
1034575
vdb-entry
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79822
vdb-entry
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[oss-security] 20160104 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: reading IMR registers leads to a crash
mailing-list
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[oss-security] 20160104 CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: reading IMR registers leads to a crash
mailing-list
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876
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DSA-3471
vendor-advisory
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GLSA-201602-01
vendor-advisory
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