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CVE-2015-8818

Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 27, 2016

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

An out-of-bounds flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built using 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection. The flaw could occur while doing pci_dma_read/write calls, resulting in an out-of-bounds read-write access error. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the guest instance (denial of service).

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write