CVE-2018-15746

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-15746  

qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for threads other than the main thread.

Find out more about CVE-2018-15746 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm-rhev Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm-ma Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-kvm Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Jann Horn (Google.com) for reporting this issue.