CVE-2015-8817

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 13
Modified
Published: 29 Dec 2016, 22:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 08:29

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.09% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

29 Dec 2016, 22:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 08:29
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.09%• Percentile: 25%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-125•Out-of-bounds Read

    The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • qemu•qemu

    1.6.0 | 1.6.0:rc1 | 1.6.0:rc2 | 1.6.0:rc3 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.2 | 1.7.1 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0:rc0 | 2.0.0:rc1 | 2.0.0:rc2 | 2.0.0:rc3 | 2.0.2 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.0:rc0 | 2.1.0:rc1 | 2.1.0:rc2 | 2.1.0:rc3 | 2.1.0:rc5 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.1 | 2.3.0 | 2.3.1

References (11)