Resource Exhaustion Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.3+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.1% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-QEMU-428131
- published 12 Jan 2016
- disclosed 12 Jan 2016
Introduced: 12 Jan 2016
CVE-2015-1779 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
qemu
to version 1:2.3+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1779
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3259
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154656.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155196.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04894.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04895.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg04896.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00042.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/24/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/09/6
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1931.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1943.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73303
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033975
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-1779
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2608-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1931
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1943
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1779
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199572