NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)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-624933
  • published30 Oct 2017
  • disclosed30 Oct 2017

Introduced: 30 Oct 2017

CVE-2015-7549  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 MSI-X MMIO support in hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to define the .write method.