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

CWE-125 CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79820Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034574Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929Issue Tracking
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79820Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034574Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929Issue Tracking
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory

Timeline

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

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