CVE-2015-8613 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8613?

CVE-2015-8613 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8613?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8613?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-8613 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8613, GHSA-62p4-wgww-h3qr, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8613.