CVE-2015-8817

Publication date

2016-12-29 22:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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.