vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-1779: qemu -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 12, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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