CWE
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CVE-2015-8817

First published: Thu Jan 21 2016(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
QEMU KVM=1.6.0
QEMU KVM=1.6.0-rc1
QEMU KVM=1.6.0-rc2
QEMU KVM=1.6.0-rc3
QEMU KVM=1.6.1
QEMU KVM=1.6.2
QEMU KVM=1.7.1
QEMU KVM=2.0.0
QEMU KVM=2.0.0-rc0
QEMU KVM=2.0.0-rc1
QEMU KVM=2.0.0-rc2
QEMU KVM=2.0.0-rc3
QEMU KVM=2.0.2
QEMU KVM=2.1.0
QEMU KVM=2.1.0-rc0
QEMU KVM=2.1.0-rc1
QEMU KVM=2.1.0-rc2
QEMU KVM=2.1.0-rc3
QEMU KVM=2.1.0-rc5
QEMU KVM=2.1.1
QEMU KVM=2.1.2
QEMU KVM=2.1.3
QEMU KVM=2.2.0
QEMU KVM=2.2.1
QEMU KVM=2.3.0
QEMU KVM=2.3.1

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