VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8817

medium
Published 2016-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:2.4+dfsg-1a
sid Fixed 1:2.4+dfsg-1a
forky Fixed 1:2.4+dfsg-1a
bullseye Fixed 1:2.4+dfsg-1a
bookworm Fixed 1:2.4+dfsg-1a

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu1.6.0
qemuqemu1.6.1
qemuqemu1.6.2
qemuqemu1.7.1
qemuqemu2.0.0
qemuqemu2.0.2
qemuqemu2.1.0
qemuqemu2.1.1
qemuqemu2.1.2
qemuqemu2.1.3
qemuqemu2.2.0
qemuqemu2.2.1
qemuqemu2.3.0
qemuqemu2.3.1

References

CWEs

CWE-125 CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.