CVE - CVE-2015-8745

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-8745	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MLIST:[oss-security] 20160104 CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: reading IMR registers leads to a crash URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4 MLIST:[oss-security] 20160104 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: reading IMR registers leads to a crash URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7 CONFIRM:http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876 DEBIAN:DSA-3471 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 GENTOO:GLSA-201602-01 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 BID:79822 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822 SECTRACK:1034575 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575
Assigning CNA
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Date Entry Created
20160104	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160104)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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