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CVE-2015-8743

Published: 4 January 2016

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22)
upstream Needs triage

vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily
Released (1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=aa7f9966dfdff500bbbf1956d9e115b1fa8987a6
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.27)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.1
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N