5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2015-8817

Published: 29/12/2016 Updated: 12/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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qemu qemu 2.0.0

qemu qemu 2.0.2

qemu qemu 2.1.3

qemu qemu 2.1.0

qemu qemu 1.6.0

qemu qemu 2.2.1

qemu qemu 2.3.1

qemu qemu 2.1.1

qemu qemu 1.7.1

qemu qemu 2.3.0

qemu qemu 1.6.2

qemu qemu 1.6.1

qemu qemu 2.2.0

qemu qemu 2.1.2

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 70 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security im ...
Synopsis Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 60 (Juno) for RHEL 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security im ...
Synopsis Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 80 (Liberty)Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Commo ...
Synopsis Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 50 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a securit ...
Synopsis Moderate: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 90 (Mitaka)Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common ...
An out-of-bounds flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built using 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection The flaw could occur while doing pci_dma_read/write calls, resulting in an out-of-bounds read-write access error A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the guest instance (denial of service) ...