Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8745
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 29, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory