CVE-2015-8666

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the QEMU emulator built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator. During VM-guest migration, more data (8 bytes) is moved than the allocated memory area. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to corrupt the VM guest image, which could potentially lead to a denial of service.

This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

This issue does not affect the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

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