Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007183
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Dec 2016

CVE-2015-8818  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) does not properly skip MMIO regions, which allows local privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

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