CVE-2015-8818

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

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

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b242e0e0e2969c044a318e56f7988bbd84de1f63
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2705.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2706.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771Issue Tracking
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b242e0e0e2969c044a318e56f7988bbd84de1f63
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2705.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2706.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771Issue Tracking

Timeline

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

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