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CVE-2015-8745
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-29T22:59:00.260 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:09.467

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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