CVE-2015-8745
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8745
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8745.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8745
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-29T22:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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 (CAPSYSRAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895