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CVE-2015-8818

Published: Dec 29, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4 LOW
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8818
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

The 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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
QemuQemu*2.3.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
QemuUbuntutrusty*
QemuUbuntutrusty/esm*
QemuUbuntuwily*

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