The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software allows a hacker to trigger a service failure or cause some other unknown effect.

The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to incorrect restrictions on commands received from ATAPI devices. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures or potentially have other unspecified effects by using certain IDE commands...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2152

Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by 1 setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support,...

qemu-kvm: virtqueue: too-large indirect descriptor buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in the virtio subsystem in qemu-kvm 0.14.0 and earlier allows privileged guest users to cause a denial of service guest crash or gain privileges via a crafted indirect descriptor related to "virtqueue in and out requests."...

libspice: Insufficient guest provided pointers validation

libspice, as used in QEMU-KVM in the Hypervisor aka rhev-hypervisor in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV 2.2 and qspice 0.3.0, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash or...

PT-2010-2484 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.26 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a guest OS crash and an associated qemu-kvm process exit. This is achieved by sending a large amount of network...