CVE-2015-6855

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

hw/ide/core.c in QEMU does not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allows 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.

hw/ide/core.c in QEMU does not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allows 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-06 21:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-01 01:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Fedora 21

21

Fedora 22

22

Fedora Project Fedora 23

23

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12.0

12.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0

12.0

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