CVE-2015-8613

medium

Published 2017-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the megasas_ctrl_get_info function in QEMU, when built with SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation support, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) via a crafted SCSI controller CTRL_GET_INFO command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-3`
sid	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-3`
forky	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:2.5+dfsg-3`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.5.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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