CVE-2015-8818

medium

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.

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=b242e0e0e2969c044a318e56f7988bbd84de1f63

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2705.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2706.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-12-29

Updated: 2020-11-10

Type: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM