• Tenable
  • CVEs
  • Settings
    Links
    Tenable Cloud Tenable Community & Support Tenable University
    Severity
    Theme
  • Tenable
  • Plugins
  • Overview
  • Plugins Pipeline
  • Newest
  • Updated
  • Search
  • Nessus Families
  • WAS Families
  • NNM Families
  • LCE Families
  • Tenable OT Security Families
  • About Plugin Families
  • Release Notes
  • Audits
  • Overview
  • Newest
  • Updated
  • Search Audit Files
  • Search Items
  • References
  • Authorities
  • Documentation
  • Download All Audit Files
  • Indicators
  • Overview
  • Search
  • Indicators of Attack
  • Indicators of Exposure
  • CVEs
  • Overview
  • Newest
  • Updated
  • Search
  • Attack Path Techniques
  • Overview
  • Search
    • Links
    • Tenable Cloud
    • Tenable Community & Support
    • Tenable University
    • Settings
    • Severity
    • Theme
Detections
  • Plugins
  • Overview
  • Plugins Pipeline
  • Release Notes
  • Newest
  • Updated
  • Search
  • Nessus Families
  • WAS Families
  • NNM Families
  • LCE Families
  • Tenable OT Security Families
  • About Plugin Families
  • Audits
  • Overview
  • Newest
  • Updated
  • Search Audit Files
  • Search Items
  • References
  • Authorities
  • Documentation
  • Download All Audit Files
  • Indicators
  • Overview
  • Search
  • Indicators of Attack
  • Indicators of Exposure
Analytics
  • CVEs
  • Overview
  • Newest
  • Updated
  • Search
  • Attack Path Techniques
  • Overview
  • Search
  1. CVEs
  2. CVE-2015-4037
  1. CVEs

CVE-2015-4037

medium
  • Information
  • CPEs
  • Plugins

Description

The slirp_smb function in net/slirp.c in QEMU 2.3.0 and earlier creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (instantiation failure) by creating /tmp/qemu-smb.*-* files before the program.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222892

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2630-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032547

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74809

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/23/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/16/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/13/7

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3285

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3284

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00027.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160414.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160058.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-08-26

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00099

  • Tenable.com
  • Community & Support
  • Documentation
  • Education
  • © 2025 Tenable®, Inc. All Rights Reserved
  • Privacy Policy
  • Legal
  • 508 Compliance