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LIN8-5568 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2015-8745

Created: Jan 12, 2017    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 17, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.13
Fix Version: 8.0.0.14
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8745

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