CVE-2015-8817

MEDIUM

Qemu - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2706.html
Mailing List, Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1
Mailing List, Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2705.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-01/msg00060.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125 CWE-787
Status published
Products (14)
qemu/qemu 1.6.0 (4 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu 1.6.1
qemu/qemu 1.6.2
qemu/qemu 1.7.1
qemu/qemu 2.0.0 (5 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu 2.0.2
qemu/qemu 2.1.0 (6 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu 2.1.1
qemu/qemu 2.1.2
qemu/qemu 2.1.3
... and 4 more
Published Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026