A stack buffer-overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the QEMU emulator built with SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation support. The flaw occurs when processing the SCSI controller's CTRL_GET_INFO command. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance (denial of service).
Find out more about CVE-2015-8613 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.
This issue affects the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.
This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently
planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | xen | Not affected |
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