Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007213
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15746  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1