Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)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-624062
  • published13 Apr 2017
  • disclosed13 Apr 2017

Introduced: 13 Apr 2017

CVE-2015-8619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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.

The Human Monitor Interface support in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash).