CVE-2015-8619
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
The Human Monitor Interface support in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash).
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.5+dfsg-5 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.5+dfsg-5 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.5+dfsg-5 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.5+dfsg-5 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.5+dfsg-5 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.5.1.1"} | |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79668
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02930.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8619
CWEs
CWE-787
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.