UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8745

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8745
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8745.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8745
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Published
2016-01-04T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:31Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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 (CAPSYSRAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / qemu

Package

Name
qemu
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/qemu@2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22

Affected versions

1.*

1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5
1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6
1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu2
1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu3
1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu4
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu2
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu3
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu4
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu5
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu7
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu8
1.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu1~ppa1
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu1
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu2
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu3
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu4
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6
1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu7

2.*

2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu3.1
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.3
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.5
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.6
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.7
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.8
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.9
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.10
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.13
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.14
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.15
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.16
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.17
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.18
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.19
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.20
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.21

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-guest-agent"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-keymaps"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-kvm"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-aarch64"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-arm"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-common"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-mips"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-misc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-ppc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-sparc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-system-x86"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-user"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-user-static"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22",
            "binary_name": "qemu-utils"
        }
    ]
}