VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-7549
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.
MEDIUM 6.0EPSS 0.38%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.0 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.38% probability · 31th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- qemu/qemu
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43b11a91dd861a946b231b89b754285
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175380.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43b11a91dd861a946b231b89b754285
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175380.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.