Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS 3.0 6.0/10
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43b11a91dd861a946b231b89b754285
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175380.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43b11a91dd861a946b231b89b754285
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175380.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Oct 30, 2017
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified