CVE-2015-8745

CVSS V2 Low 2.1 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2015-8745
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-12-29T22:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T00:55:18
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-617 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/617.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.4.1
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 2.1
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876 Issue Tracking
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034575 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895 Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8745
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8745
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:20:30 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:37:51 2016-12-29T22:59Z 2016-12-29T22:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 12:37:51 2020-11-10T18:47:05 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 12:37:51 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-13 01:06:57 2023-02-13T00:55:18 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 01:06:57 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated