Fabrice Bellard QEMU Websocket Frame Decoder resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Fabrice Bellard QEMU. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Websocket Frame Decoder. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2015-1779. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Fabrice Bellard QEMU (Virtualization Software) (version now known) and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Websocket Frame Decoder. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

The VNC websocket frame decoder in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section.

The weakness was shared 03/24/2015 as Bug 1199572 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-1779 since 02/17/2015. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 82963 (RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2015:1943)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 168804 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for xen (SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1)).

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (101834), Tenable (82963), SecurityFocus (BID 72577†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-54013†). bugzilla.redhat.com is providing further details. The entries VDB-13272, VDB-13273, VDB-13275 and VDB-68347 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.1

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 82963
Nessus Name: RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2015:1943)
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OpenVAS ID: 703259
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3259-1 (qemu - security update)
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02/17/2015 +412 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +35 days 🔍
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04/22/2015 +23 days 🔍
10/28/2015 +189 days 🔍
01/12/2016 +76 days 🔍
04/16/2022 +2286 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: bellard.org

Advisory: Bug 1199572
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-1779 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-1779
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-74129

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X-Force: 101834 - QEMU websocket frame decoder denial of service
SecurityFocus: 72577
SecurityTracker: 1033975
Vulnerability Center: 54013 - QEMU Remote DoS Vulnerability in VNC Websocket Frame Decoder, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/30/2015 10:25
Updated: 04/16/2022 09:10
Changes: 03/30/2015 10:25 (82), 03/02/2018 09:28 (1), 04/16/2022 09:09 (4), 04/16/2022 09:10 (1)
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