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CVE-2015-7549

The MSI-X MMIO support in hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS...

6.0 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
High
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.39%Down 0.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
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What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.0

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.

Record
CVE-2015-7549
CVSS 3.0
6.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2015-7549
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-7463 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2015-7463
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-v683-5725-54rp 6.0

The MSI-X MMIO support in hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS...

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.

Record
GHSA-v683-5725-54rp
CVSS 3.0
6.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.0

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.

Record
CVE-2015-7549
CVSS 3.0
6.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2015-7549 6.0

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7549
CVSS 3.0
6.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-7549 6.0

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7549
CVSS 3.0
6.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0023 No score

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way QEMU's AMD PC-Net II Ethernet Controller emulation received certain packets in loopback mode. A privileged user (with the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability) inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the host QEMU process (resulting in denial of service) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with privileges of the host QEMU process (CVE-2015-7504)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's AMD PC-Net II emulation validated certain received packets from a remote host in non-loopback mode. A remote, unprivileged attacker could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process. Note that to exploit this flaw, the guest network interface must have a large MTU limit (CVE-2015-7512)

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the QEMU emulator built with PCI MSI-X support. Because MSI-X MMIO support did not define the .write method, when the controller tried to write to the pending bit array(PBA) memory region, a segmentation fault occurred. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in denial of service (CVE-2015-7549)

An infinite-loop flaw was discovered in the QEMU emulator built with i8255x (PRO100) emulation support. When processing a chain of commands located in the Command Block List(CBL), each Command Block(CB) points to the next command in the list. If the link to the next CB pointed to the same block or if there was a closed loop in the chain, an infinite loop would execute the same command over and over again. A privileged user inside the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance, resulting in denial of service (CVE-2015-8345).

An arithmetic-exception flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with VNC display-driver support. The VNC server incorrectly handled 'SetPixelFormat' messages sent from clients. A privileged remote client could use this flaw to crash the guest resulting in denial of service (CVE-2015-8504).

An infinite-loop issue was found in the QEMU emulator built with USB EHCI emulation support. The flaw occurred during communication between the host controller interface(EHCI) and a respective device driver. These two communicate using an isochronous transfer descriptor list(iTD). an infinite loop unfolded if there was a closed loop in the list. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to consume excessive resources and cause denial of service (CVE-2015-8558).

A memory-leak flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support. The flaw occurred when a guest repeatedly tried to activate the VMXNET3 device. A privileged guest attacker could use this flaw to leak host memory, resulting in denial of service on the host. (CVE-2015-8567, CVE-2015-8568)

A stack buffer-overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the QEMU emulator built with SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation support. The flaw occurs when processing the SCSI controller's CTRL_GET_INFO command. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance (denial of service). (CVE-2015-8613)

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability has been found in the QEMU emulator built with Human Monitor Interface(HMP) support. The issue occurs when the 'sendkey' command (in hmp_sendkey) is processed with a 'keyname_len' that is greater than the 'keyname_buf' array size. A user or process could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance (denial of service). (CVE-2015-8619)

Qemu emulator built with the Q35 chipset based pc system emulator is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow. It occurs during VM guest migration, as more(8 bytes) data is moved than allocated memory area. A privileged guest user could use this issue to corrupt the VM guest image, potentially leading to a DoS. This issue affects q35 machine types. (CVE-2015-8666)

An out-of-bounds read-write access flaw was found in the…

Record
MGASA-2016-0023
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 No score

xen-4.7.0_12-1.3 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the xen-4.7.0_12-1.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:0873-1 No score

Security update for xen

xen was updated to fix 44 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2013-4533: Buffer overflow in the pxa2xx_ssp_load function in hw/arm/pxa2xx.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted s->rx_level value in a savevm image (bsc#864655).
  • CVE-2013-4534: Buffer overflow in hw/intc/openpic.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to IRQDest elements (bsc#864811).
  • CVE-2013-4537: The ssi_sd_transfer function in hw/sd/ssi-sd.c allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted arglen value in a savevm image (bsc#864391).
  • CVE-2013-4538: Multiple buffer overflows in the ssd0323_load function in hw/display/ssd0323.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) cmd_len, (2) row, or (3) col values; (4) row_start and row_end values; or (5) col_star and col_end values in a savevm image (bsc#864769).
  • CVE-2013-4539: Multiple buffer overflows in the tsc210x_load function in hw/input/tsc210x.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) precision, (2) nextprecision, (3) function, or (4) nextfunction value in a savevm image (bsc#864805).
  • CVE-2014-0222: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in block/qcow.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large L2 table in a QCOW version 1 image (bsc#877642).
  • CVE-2014-3640: The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket (bsc#897654).
  • CVE-2014-3689: The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) allowed local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling (bsc#901508).
  • CVE-2014-7815: The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value (bsc#902737).
  • CVE-2014-9718: The (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality had multiple interpretations of a function's return value, which allowed guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service (memory consumption or infinite loop, and system crash) via a PRDT with zero complete sectors, related to the bmdma_prepare_buf and ahci_dma_prepare_buf functions (bsc#928393).
  • CVE-2015-1779: The VNC websocket frame decoder allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section (bsc#924018).
  • CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function (bsc#945989).
  • CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c did not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#945404).
  • CVE-2015-7512: Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large packet (bsc#957162).
  • CVE-2015-7549: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue (bsc#958917).
  • CVE-2015-8345: eepro100: infinite loop in processing command block list (bsc#956829).
  • CVE-2015-8504: VNC: floating point exception (bsc#958491).
  • CVE-2015-8550: Paravirtualized drivers were incautious about shared memory contents (XSA-155) (bsc#957988).
  • CVE-2015-8554: qemu-dm buffer overrun in MSI-X handling (XSA-164) (bsc#958007).
  • CVE-2015-8555: Information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM initialization (XSA-165) (bsc#958009).
  • CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in…
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:0955-1 No score

Security update for xen

xen was updated to fix 47 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2013-4527: Buffer overflow in hw/timer/hpet.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the number of timers (bnc#864673).
  • CVE-2013-4529: Buffer overflow in hw/pci/pcie_aer.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large log_num value in a savevm image (bnc#864678).
  • CVE-2013-4530: Buffer overflow in hw/ssi/pl022.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tx_fifo_head and rx_fifo_head values in a savevm image (bnc#864682).
  • CVE-2013-4533: Buffer overflow in the pxa2xx_ssp_load function in hw/arm/pxa2xx.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted s->rx_level value in a savevm image (bsc#864655).
  • CVE-2013-4534: Buffer overflow in hw/intc/openpic.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to IRQDest elements (bsc#864811).
  • CVE-2013-4537: The ssi_sd_transfer function in hw/sd/ssi-sd.c allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted arglen value in a savevm image (bsc#864391).
  • CVE-2013-4538: Multiple buffer overflows in the ssd0323_load function in hw/display/ssd0323.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) cmd_len, (2) row, or (3) col values; (4) row_start and row_end values; or (5) col_star and col_end values in a savevm image (bsc#864769).
  • CVE-2013-4539: Multiple buffer overflows in the tsc210x_load function in hw/input/tsc210x.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) precision, (2) nextprecision, (3) function, or (4) nextfunction value in a savevm image (bsc#864805).
  • CVE-2014-0222: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in block/qcow.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large L2 table in a QCOW version 1 image (bsc#877642).
  • CVE-2014-3640: The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket (bsc#897654).
  • CVE-2014-3689: The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) allowed local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling (bsc#901508).
  • CVE-2014-7815: The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value (bsc#902737).
  • CVE-2014-9718: The (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality had multiple interpretations of a function's return value, which allowed guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service (memory consumption or infinite loop, and system crash) via a PRDT with zero complete sectors, related to the bmdma_prepare_buf and ahci_dma_prepare_buf functions (bsc#928393).
  • CVE-2015-1779: The VNC websocket frame decoder allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section (bsc#924018).
  • CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function (bsc#945989).
  • CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c did not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#945404).
  • CVE-2015-7512: Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute…
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1318-1 No score

Security update for xen

xen was updated to fix 46 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2013-4527: Buffer overflow in hw/timer/hpet.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the number of timers (bsc#964746).
  • CVE-2013-4529: Buffer overflow in hw/pci/pcie_aer.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large log_num value in a savevm image (bsc#964929).
  • CVE-2013-4530: Buffer overflow in hw/ssi/pl022.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tx_fifo_head and rx_fifo_head values in a savevm image (bsc#964950).
  • CVE-2013-4533: Buffer overflow in the pxa2xx_ssp_load function in hw/arm/pxa2xx.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted s->rx_level value in a savevm image (bsc#964644).
  • CVE-2013-4534: Buffer overflow in hw/intc/openpic.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to IRQDest elements (bsc#964452).
  • CVE-2013-4537: The ssi_sd_transfer function in hw/sd/ssi-sd.c allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted arglen value in a savevm image (bsc#962642).
  • CVE-2013-4538: Multiple buffer overflows in the ssd0323_load function in hw/display/ssd0323.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) cmd_len, (2) row, or (3) col values; (4) row_start and row_end values; or (5) col_star and col_end values in a savevm image (bsc#962335).
  • CVE-2013-4539: Multiple buffer overflows in the tsc210x_load function in hw/input/tsc210x.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) precision, (2) nextprecision, (3) function, or (4) nextfunction value in a savevm image (bsc#962758).
  • CVE-2014-0222: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in block/qcow.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large L2 table in a QCOW version 1 image (bsc#964925).
  • CVE-2014-3640: The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket (bsc#965112).
  • CVE-2014-3689: The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) allowed local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling (bsc#962611).
  • CVE-2014-7815: The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value (bsc#962627).
  • CVE-2014-9718: The (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality had multiple interpretations of a function's return value, which allowed guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service (memory consumption or infinite loop, and system crash) via a PRDT with zero complete sectors, related to the bmdma_prepare_buf and ahci_dma_prepare_buf functions (bsc#964431).
  • CVE-2015-1779: The VNC websocket frame decoder allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section (bsc#962632).
  • CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function (bsc#964947).
  • CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c did not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#965156).
  • CVE-2015-7512: Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute…
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1560-1 No score

Security update for qemu

qemu was updated to fix 37 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-4439: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980711)
  • CVE-2016-4441: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980723)
  • CVE-2016-4952: Avoid OOB access in Vmware PV SCSI emulation (bsc#981266)
  • CVE-2015-8817: Avoid OOB access in PCI DMA I/O (bsc#969121)
  • CVE-2015-8818: Avoid OOB access in PCI DMA I/O (bsc#969122)
  • CVE-2016-3710: Fixed VGA emulation based OOB access with potential for guest escape (bsc#978158)
  • CVE-2016-3712: Fixed VGa emulation based DOS and OOB read access exploit (bsc#978160)
  • CVE-2016-4037: Fixed USB ehci based DOS (bsc#976109)
  • CVE-2016-2538: Fixed potential OOB access in USB net device emulation (bsc#967969)
  • CVE-2016-2841: Fixed OOB access / hang in ne2000 emulation (bsc#969350)
  • CVE-2016-2858: Avoid potential DOS when using QEMU pseudo random number generator (bsc#970036)
  • CVE-2016-2857: Fixed OOB access when processing IP checksums (bsc#970037)
  • CVE-2016-4001: Fixed OOB access in Stellaris enet emulated nic (bsc#975128)
  • CVE-2016-4002: Fixed OOB access in MIPSnet emulated controller (bsc#975136)
  • CVE-2016-4020: Fixed possible host data leakage to guest from TPR access (bsc#975700)
  • CVE-2015-3214: Fixed OOB read in i8254 PIC (bsc#934069)
  • CVE-2014-9718: Fixed the handling of malformed or short ide PRDTs to avoid any opportunity for guest to cause DoS by abusing that interface (bsc#928393)
  • CVE-2014-3689: Fixed insufficient parameter validation in rectangle functions (bsc#901508)
  • CVE-2014-3615: The VGA emulator in QEMU allowed local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution (bsc#895528).
  • CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463).
  • CVE-2015-5745: Buffer overflow in virtio-serial (bsc#940929).
  • CVE-2015-7295: hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface (bsc#947159).
  • CVE-2015-7549: PCI null pointer dereferences (bsc#958917).
  • CVE-2015-8504: VNC floating point exception (bsc#958491).
  • CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in ehci_advance_state resulting in DoS (bsc#959005).
  • CVE-2015-8567: A guest repeatedly activating a vmxnet3 device can leak host memory (bsc#959386).
  • CVE-2015-8568: A guest repeatedly activating a vmxnet3 device can leak host memory (bsc#959386).
  • CVE-2015-8613: Wrong sized memset in megasas command handler (bsc#961358).
  • CVE-2015-8619: Potential DoS for long HMP sendkey command argument (bsc#960334).
  • CVE-2015-8743: OOB memory access in ne2000 ioport r/w functions (bsc#960725).
  • CVE-2015-8744: Incorrect l2 header validation could have lead to a crash via assert(2) call (bsc#960835).
  • CVE-2015-8745: Reading IMR registers could have lead to a crash via assert(2) call (bsc#960708).
  • CVE-2016-1568: AHCI use-after-free in aio port commands (bsc#961332).
  • CVE-2016-1714: Potential OOB memory access in processing firmware configuration (bsc#961691).
  • CVE-2016-1922: NULL pointer dereference when processing hmp i/o command (bsc#962320).
  • CVE-2016-1981: Potential DoS (infinite loop) in e1000 device emulation by malicious privileged user within guest (bsc#963782).
  • CVE-2016-2198: Malicious privileged guest user were able to cause DoS by writing to read-only EHCI capabilities registers (bsc#964413).

This non-security issue was fixed

  • bsc#886378: qemu truncates vhd images in virt-rescue
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1560-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1698-1 No score

Security update for kvm

kvm was updated to fix 33 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-4439: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980711)
  • CVE-2016-4441: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980723)
  • CVE-2016-3710: Fixed VGA emulation based OOB access with potential for guest escape (bsc#978158)
  • CVE-2016-3712: Fixed VGa emulation based DOS and OOB read access exploit (bsc#978160)
  • CVE-2016-4037: Fixed USB ehci based DOS (bsc#976109)
  • CVE-2016-2538: Fixed potential OOB access in USB net device emulation (bsc#967969)
  • CVE-2016-2841: Fixed OOB access / hang in ne2000 emulation (bsc#969350)
  • CVE-2016-2858: Avoid potential DOS when using QEMU pseudo random number generator (bsc#970036)
  • CVE-2016-2857: Fixed OOB access when processing IP checksums (bsc#970037)
  • CVE-2016-4001: Fixed OOB access in Stellaris enet emulated nic (bsc#975128)
  • CVE-2016-4002: Fixed OOB access in MIPSnet emulated controller (bsc#975136)
  • CVE-2016-4020: Fixed possible host data leakage to guest from TPR access (bsc#975700)
  • CVE-2015-3214: Fixed OOB read in i8254 PIC (bsc#934069)
  • CVE-2014-9718: Fixed the handling of malformed or short ide PRDTs to avoid any opportunity for guest to cause DoS by abusing that interface (bsc#928393)
  • CVE-2014-3689: Fixed insufficient parameter validation in rectangle functions (bsc#901508)
  • CVE-2014-3615: The VGA emulator in QEMU allowed local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution (bsc#895528).
  • CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463).
  • CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function (bsc#945989).
  • CVE-2015-5279: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to receiving packets (bsc#945987).
  • CVE-2015-5745: Buffer overflow in virtio-serial (bsc#940929).
  • CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c in QEMU did not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#945404).
  • CVE-2015-7295: hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface (bsc#947159).
  • CVE-2015-7549: PCI null pointer dereferences (bsc#958917).
  • CVE-2015-8504: VNC floating point exception (bsc#958491).
  • CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in ehci_advance_state resulting in DoS (bsc#959005).
  • CVE-2015-8613: Wrong sized memset in megasas command handler (bsc#961358).
  • CVE-2015-8619: Potential DoS for long HMP sendkey command argument (bsc#960334).
  • CVE-2015-8743: OOB memory access in ne2000 ioport r/w functions (bsc#960725).
  • CVE-2016-1568: AHCI use-after-free in aio port commands (bsc#961332).
  • CVE-2016-1714: Potential OOB memory access in processing firmware configuration (bsc#961691).
  • CVE-2016-1922: NULL pointer dereference when processing hmp i/o command (bsc#962320).
  • CVE-2016-1981: Potential DoS (infinite loop) in e1000 device emulation by malicious privileged user within guest (bsc#963782).
  • CVE-2016-2198: Malicious privileged guest user were able to cause DoS by writing to read-only EHCI capabilities registers (bsc#964413).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • Fix case of IDE interface needing busy status set before flush (bsc#936132)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1698-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1703-1 No score

Security update for qemu

qemu was updated to fix 29 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-4439: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980711)
  • CVE-2016-4441: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980723)
  • CVE-2016-4952: Avoid OOB access in Vmware PV SCSI emulation (bsc#981266)
  • CVE-2015-8817: Avoid OOB access in PCI dma I/O (bsc#969121)
  • CVE-2015-8818: Avoid OOB access in PCI dma I/O (bsc#969122)
  • CVE-2016-3710: Fixed VGA emulation based OOB access with potential for guest escape (bsc#978158)
  • CVE-2016-3712: Fixed VGa emulation based DOS and OOB read access exploit (bsc#978160)
  • CVE-2016-4037: Fixed USB ehci based DOS (bsc#976109)
  • CVE-2016-2538: Fixed potential OOB access in USB net device emulation (bsc#967969)
  • CVE-2016-2841: Fixed OOB access / hang in ne2000 emulation (bsc#969350)
  • CVE-2016-2858: Avoid potential DOS when using QEMU pseudo random number generator (bsc#970036)
  • CVE-2016-2857: Fixed OOB access when processing IP checksums (bsc#970037)
  • CVE-2016-4001: Fixed OOB access in Stellaris enet emulated nic (bsc#975128)
  • CVE-2016-4002: Fixed OOB access in MIPSnet emulated controller (bsc#975136)
  • CVE-2016-4020: Fixed possible host data leakage to guest from TPR access (bsc#975700)
  • CVE-2016-2197: Prevent AHCI NULL pointer dereference when using FIS CLB engine (bsc#964411)
  • CVE-2015-5745: Buffer overflow in virtio-serial (bsc#940929).
  • CVE-2015-7549: PCI null pointer dereferences (bsc#958917).
  • CVE-2015-8504: VNC floating point exception (bsc#958491).
  • CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in ehci_advance_state resulting in DoS (bsc#959005).
  • CVE-2015-8567: A guest repeatedly activating a vmxnet3 device can leak host memory (bsc#959386).
  • CVE-2015-8568: A guest repeatedly activating a vmxnet3 device can leak host memory (bsc#959386).
  • CVE-2015-8613: Wrong sized memset in megasas command handler (bsc#961358).
  • CVE-2015-8619: Potential DoS for long HMP sendkey command argument (bsc#960334).
  • CVE-2015-8743: OOB memory access in ne2000 ioport r/w functions (bsc#960725).
  • CVE-2015-8744: Incorrect l2 header validation could have lead to a crash via assert(2) call (bsc#960835).
  • CVE-2015-8745: Reading IMR registers could have lead to a crash via assert(2) call (bsc#960708).
  • CVE-2016-1568: AHCI use-after-free in aio port commands (bsc#961332).
  • CVE-2016-1714: Potential OOB memory access in processing firmware configuration (bsc#961691).
  • CVE-2016-1922: NULL pointer dereference when processing hmp i/o command (bsc#962320).
  • CVE-2016-1981: Potential DoS (infinite loop) in e1000 device emulation by malicious privileged user within guest (bsc#963782).
  • CVE-2016-2198: Malicious privileged guest user were able to cause DoS by writing to read-only EHCI capabilities registers (bsc#964413).

This non-security issue was fixed

  • bsc#886378: qemu truncates vhd images in virt-rescue
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1703-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:1785-1 No score

Security update for kvm

kvm was updated to fix 33 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-4439: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980711)
  • CVE-2016-4441: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation (bsc#980723)
  • CVE-2016-3710: Fixed VGA emulation based OOB access with potential for guest escape (bsc#978158)
  • CVE-2016-3712: Fixed VGa emulation based DOS and OOB read access exploit (bsc#978160)
  • CVE-2016-4037: Fixed USB ehci based DOS (bsc#976109)
  • CVE-2016-2538: Fixed potential OOB access in USB net device emulation (bsc#967969)
  • CVE-2016-2841: Fixed OOB access / hang in ne2000 emulation (bsc#969350)
  • CVE-2016-2858: Avoid potential DOS when using QEMU pseudo random number generator (bsc#970036)
  • CVE-2016-2857: Fixed OOB access when processing IP checksums (bsc#970037)
  • CVE-2016-4001: Fixed OOB access in Stellaris enet emulated nic (bsc#975128)
  • CVE-2016-4002: Fixed OOB access in MIPSnet emulated controller (bsc#975136)
  • CVE-2016-4020: Fixed possible host data leakage to guest from TPR access (bsc#975700)
  • CVE-2015-3214: Fixed OOB read in i8254 PIC (bsc#934069)
  • CVE-2014-9718: Fixed the handling of malformed or short ide PRDTs to avoid any opportunity for guest to cause DoS by abusing that interface (bsc#928393)
  • CVE-2014-3689: Fixed insufficient parameter validation in rectangle functions (bsc#901508)
  • CVE-2014-3615: The VGA emulator in QEMU allowed local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution (bsc#895528).
  • CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463).
  • CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function (bsc#945989).
  • CVE-2015-5279: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to receiving packets (bsc#945987).
  • CVE-2015-5745: Buffer overflow in virtio-serial (bsc#940929).
  • CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c in QEMU did not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#945404).
  • CVE-2015-7295: hw/virtio/virtio.c in the Virtual Network Device (virtio-net) support in QEMU, when big or mergeable receive buffers are not supported, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest network consumption) via a flood of jumbo frames on the (1) tuntap or (2) macvtap interface (bsc#947159).
  • CVE-2015-7549: PCI null pointer dereferences (bsc#958917).
  • CVE-2015-8504: VNC floating point exception (bsc#958491).
  • CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in ehci_advance_state resulting in DoS (bsc#959005).
  • CVE-2015-8613: Wrong sized memset in megasas command handler (bsc#961358).
  • CVE-2015-8619: Potential DoS for long HMP sendkey command argument (bsc#960334).
  • CVE-2015-8743: OOB memory access in ne2000 ioport r/w functions (bsc#960725).
  • CVE-2016-1568: AHCI use-after-free in aio port commands (bsc#961332).
  • CVE-2016-1714: Potential OOB memory access in processing firmware configuration (bsc#961691).
  • CVE-2016-1922: NULL pointer dereference when processing hmp i/o command (bsc#962320).
  • CVE-2016-1981: Potential DoS (infinite loop) in e1000 device emulation by malicious privileged user within guest (bsc#963782).
  • CVE-2016-2198: Malicious privileged guest user were able to cause DoS by writing to read-only EHCI capabilities registers (bsc#964413).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • Fix case of IDE interface needing busy status set before flush (bsc#936132)
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:1785-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2891-1 No score

qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled PCI MSI-X support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-7549)

Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VNC server. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8504)

Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. (CVE-2015-8550)

Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8558)

Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the vmxnet3 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8567, CVE-2015-8568)

Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8613)

Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Human Monitor Interface. A local attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8619, CVE-2016-1922)

David Alan Gilbert discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Q35 chipset emulation when performing VM guest migrations. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8666)

Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the NE2000 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8743)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the vmxnet3 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8744, CVE-2015-8745)

Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrect handled IDE AHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-1568)

Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU incorrect handled the firmware configuration device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-1714)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the e1000 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1981)

Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled IDE AHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-2197)

Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-2198)

Record
USN-2891-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
Debian:12
before 1:2.5+dfsg-1
1:2.5+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:13
before 1:2.5+dfsg-1
1:2.5+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:14
before 1:2.5+dfsg-1
1:2.5+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:8
before 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5a, plus listed versions
1:2.1+dfsg-111:2.1+dfsg-121:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u11:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u21:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u3
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1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u41:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u4~bpo70+11:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u51:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5a~bpo70+11:2.1+dfsg-12~bpo70+1
1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5a
qemu
Mageia:5
before 2.1.3-2.11.mga5
2.1.3-2.11.mga5
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
before 4.5.2_06-7.1
4.5.2_06-7.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
before 4.5.2_06-7.1
4.5.2_06-7.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
before 4.5.2_06-7.1
4.5.2_06-7.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
before 4.5.2_06-7.1
4.5.2_06-7.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_02-32.1
4.4.4_02-32.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_02-32.1
4.4.4_02-32.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_02-32.1
4.4.4_02-32.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
before 4.4.4_02-32.1
4.4.4_02-32.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
before 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
4.4.4_02-22.19.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
before 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
4.4.4_02-22.19.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12
before 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
4.4.4_02-22.19.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
before 4.4.4_02-22.19.1
4.4.4_02-22.19.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
before 2.0.2-48.19.1
2.0.2-48.19.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12
before 2.0.2-48.19.1
2.0.2-48.19.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
before 2.0.2-48.19.1
2.0.2-48.19.1
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS
before 1.4.2-46.1
1.4.2-46.1
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA
before 1.4.2-46.1
1.4.2-46.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
before 2.3.1-14.1
2.3.1-14.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
before 2.3.1-14.1
2.3.1-14.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
before 2.3.1-14.1
2.3.1-14.1
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
before 1.4.2-44.1
1.4.2-44.1
kvm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
before 1.4.2-44.1
1.4.2-44.1
qemu
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22, plus listed versions
1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu51.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu61.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu11.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu21.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu3
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1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu11.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu21.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu31.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu51.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu71.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu81.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu91.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu1~ppa11.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu11.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu21.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu31.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu51.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu61.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu72.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu12.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu22.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu32.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu3.12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.32.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.52.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.62.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.72.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.82.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.92.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.102.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.112.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.132.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.142.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.152.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.162.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.172.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.182.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.192.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.202.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.21
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22
xen
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.7.0_12-1.3
4.7.0_12-1.3

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2015-7549 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.0) in Qemu, published December 16, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.39%, the 33rd percentile. Fixed in qemu 1:2.5+dfsg-1.

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