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CVE-2015-7549 (GCVE-0-2015-7549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-30 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
The MSI-X MMIO support in hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to define the .write method.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2015-12-14 00:00
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