FKIE_CVE-2015-6855
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-11-06 21:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:31
Severity
Summary
hw/ide/core.c in QEMU does not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allows guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 21 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 22 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 23 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 12 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 12 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.04 | |
| arista | eos | - |
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