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CVE-2015-8817 (GCVE-0-2015-8817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2016-01-27 00:00
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