# CVE-2015-7549: 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 (NU

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-10-30 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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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## References

- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80761
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43b11a91dd861a946b231b89b754285
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175380.html

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