CVE-2015-7549 (GCVE-0-2015-7549)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-30 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The MSI-X MMIO support in hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to define the .write method.
Severity
6.0 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
Date Public
2015-12-14 00:00
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