CVE-2015-8613

medium
Published 2017-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
1.9
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the megasas_ctrl_get_info function in QEMU, when built with SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation support, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (QEMU instance crash) via a crafted SCSI controller CTRL_GET_INFO command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8613

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg03737.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debiansidfixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.5+dfsg-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.5.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.