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CVE-2015-8817
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built to use 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection is vulnerable to an OOB r/w…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.42%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (11)
- RHSA-2016:2671 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=23820dbfc79d1c9dce090b4c555994f2bb6a69b3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2706 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160301 CVE request Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160301 Re: CVE request Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2705 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [qemu-stable] 20160127 [PATCH for v2.3.1] exec: Respect as_translate_internal length clamp (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2670 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2704 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c3c1bb99d1c11978d9ce94d1bdcf0705378c1459 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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