Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's MSI-X MMIO Support

Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's MSI-X MMIO Support

CVE-2015-7549 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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