CVE-2015-8743 in QEMU

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 01/04/2016
• Disclosure: 12/29/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-94714
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-125 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.7
• EPSS: 0.00064
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8743
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8743
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-8743/