vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-3fb06284-b1b7-11e5-9728-002590263bf5 (CVE-2015-7549): qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in MSI-X support

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 3, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the PCI MSI-X support is vulnerable to null pointer dereference issue. It occurs when the controller attempts to write to the pending bit array(PBA) memory region. Because the MSI-X MMIO support did not define the .write method. A privileges used inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS issue.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-qemufreebsd-upgrade-package-qemu-develfreebsd-upgrade-package-qemu-sbrunofreebsd-upgrade-package-qemu-user-static
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