CVE-2015-8817
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8817
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8817.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8817
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-29T22:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built to use 'addressspacetranslate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while doing pcidmaread/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
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2705.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2706.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-01/msg00060.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=23820dbfc79d1c9dce090b4c555994f2bb6a69b3
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c3c1bb99d1c11978d9ce94d1bdcf0705378c1459