vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-62ab8707-b1bc-11e5-9728-002590263bf5 (CVE-2015-8619): qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in Human Monitor Interface support

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/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 Human Monitor Interface(HMP) support is vulnerable to an OOB write issue. It occurs while processing 'sendkey' command in hmp_sendkey routine, if the command argument is longer than the 'keyname_buf' buffer size. A user/process could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance resulting in DoS.

Solutions

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