CVE-2015-8818

Summary

CVECVE-2015-8818
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) does not properly skip MMIO regions, which allows local privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commit CONFIRM git.qemu.org Issue Tracking, Patch
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE request Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2015-8818 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Bug 1300771 – CVE-2015-8817 CVE-2015-8818 Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
git.qemu.org Git - qemu.git/commit MISC git.qemu.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900063 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
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