CVE-2015-7549

N/A
Published: October 30, 2017 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQEMU

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.5.0r1
Affected range stops below 2.5.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (7)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175380.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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