Rapid7 Vulnerability & Exploit Database

SUSE: CVE-2015-8817: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Free InsightVM Trial No Credit Card Necessary
2024 Attack Intel Report Latest research by Rapid7 Labs
Back to Search

SUSE: CVE-2015-8817: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/24/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/28/2016
Modified
06/21/2021

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-curl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-rbd
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ipxe
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-lang
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ppc
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-s390
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-seabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-sgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-tools
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-vgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-x86
  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1560-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1703-1
  • RHSA-2016:2670
  • RHSA-2016:2671
  • RHSA-2016:2704
  • RHSA-2016:2705
  • RHSA-2016:2706
  • CVE-2015-8817
View more

insightVM

Advanced vulnerability management analytics and reporting.
Key Features
Free InsightVM Trial View All Features

With Rapid7 live dashboards, I have a clear view of all the assets on my network, which ones can be exploited, and what I need to do in order to reduce the risk in my environment in real-time. No other tool gives us that kind of value and insight.

– Scott Cheney, Manager of Information Security, Sierra View Medical Center

;