Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-8745
CVE-2015-8745
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.
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Affected products
25- osv-coords21 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP1
< 4.7.0_12-1.3+ 20 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.0_12-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.2-48.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.2-48.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.2-48.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.2_06-7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.1.6_08-26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.5_20-24.9
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.2_06-7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.2_06-7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.5.2_06-7.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- git.qemu.orgnvd
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