CVE-2015-8818
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8818
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8818.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8818
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-29T22:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The cpuphysicalmemorywriterom_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.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2670.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2671.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2704.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2705.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2706.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b242e0e0e2969c044a318e56f7988bbd84de1f63