Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Device model code dealing with guest PCI MSI-X interrupt management activities logs messages on certain supposedly invalid guest operations. IMPACT A buggy or malicious guest repeatedly invoking such operations may result in the host disk to fill up, possibly leading to a Denial...

PT-2014-2798

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute Nova versions Folsom through Havana Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, specifically host file system disk consumption, via a compressed QCOW2 image. This is due to the incomplete verificati...

CVE-2008-2004

The driveinit function in QEMU 0.9.1 determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted...