CVE-2015-8745

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.

Date published : 2016-12-29

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79822

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c6048f849c7e3f009786df76206e895