CVE-2015-8743 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79820 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034574 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.1