CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8817

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-12-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-787

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built to use 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while doing pci_dma_read/write calls. Affects QEMU versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the guest instance resulting in DoS.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu 1.6.0 • qemu qemu 1.6.1 • qemu qemu 1.6.2 • qemu qemu 1.7.1 • qemu qemu 2.0.0 • qemu qemu 2.0.2 • qemu qemu 2.1.0 • qemu qemu 2.1.1 • qemu qemu 2.1.2 • qemu qemu 2.1.3 • qemu qemu 2.2.0 • qemu qemu 2.2.1 • qemu qemu 2.3.0 • qemu qemu 2.3.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References