VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-8817

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references