CVE-2018-15746 - Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread.

qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-08-29 19:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-08-09 04:15:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

[oss-security] 20180828 CVE-2018-15746 Qemu: seccomp: blacklist is not applied to all threads

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2019:2425

[qemu-devel] 20180822 [PATCH v4 4/4] seccomp: set the seccomp filter to all threads

Mailing List, Patch

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