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.
Published: 2016-12-29
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3471-1 qemu security update
EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-2891-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:21.574Z

Reserved: 2016-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8745

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.260

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-8745

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8745 - Bugzilla

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