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SUSE: CVE-2015-8818: 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

The cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) does not properly skip MMIO regions, which allows local privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

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-2015-8818
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