Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8745

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-29 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:21
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State 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.