CVE-2015-8743

HighCVSS 7.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while performing 'ioport' r/w operations. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user/process could use this flaw to leak or corrupt QEMU memory bytes.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Dec 29, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-8743: High severity, CVSS 7.1 | Vulnix