CVE-2015-8817

MEDIUM5.5

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

Published Dec 29, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

Details

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.

References

WEB

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=23820dbfc79d1c9dce090b4c555994f2bb6a69b3

WEB

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c3c1bb99d1c11978d9ce94d1bdcf0705378c1459

ADVISORY

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.html

ADVISORY

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.html

ADVISORY

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.html

ADVISORY