VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-8743

CVSS score7.1 HIGH
EPSS probability0.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while performing 'ioport' r/w operations. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user/process could use this flaw to leak or corrupt QEMU memory bytes.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references