Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-QEMUKVM-623936
  • published29 Dec 2016
  • disclosed29 Dec 2016

Introduced: 29 Dec 2016

CVE-2015-8745  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.