vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8817: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
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