Vulnerability Database

313,495

Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2015-8817

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built to use 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while doing pci_dma_read/write calls. Affects QEMU versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the guest instance resulting in DoS.

  • Published: Dec 29, 2016
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2015-8817
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu 2.0.0 2.0.0.x
qemu / qemu 2.0.2 2.0.2.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.3 2.1.3.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.0-rc2 2.1.0-rc2.x
qemu / qemu 1.6.0 1.6.0.x
qemu / qemu 2.2.1 2.2.1.x
qemu / qemu 2.3.1 2.3.1.x
qemu / qemu 1.6.0-rc3 1.6.0-rc3.x
qemu / qemu 2.0.0-rc0 2.0.0-rc0.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.0 2.1.0.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.1 2.1.1.x
qemu / qemu 2.0.0-rc1 2.0.0-rc1.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.0-rc3 2.1.0-rc3.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.0-rc1 2.1.0-rc1.x
qemu / qemu 1.7.1 1.7.1.x
qemu / qemu 2.3.0 2.3.0.x
qemu / qemu 1.6.0-rc2 1.6.0-rc2.x
qemu / qemu 1.6.2 1.6.2.x
qemu / qemu 1.6.0-rc1 1.6.0-rc1.x
qemu / qemu 1.6.1 1.6.1.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.0-rc5 2.1.0-rc5.x
qemu / qemu 2.2.0 2.2.0.x
qemu / qemu 2.0.0-rc2 2.0.0-rc2.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.0-rc0 2.1.0-rc0.x
qemu / qemu 2.1.2 2.1.2.x
qemu / qemu 2.0.0-rc3 2.0.0-rc3.x