CVE-2015-8743

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while performing 'ioport' r/w operations. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user/process could use this flaw to leak or corrupt QEMU memory bytes.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.1 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-12-29

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-125, CWE-787

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Qemu (Qemu)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79820
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034574
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01