VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-8743
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue.
HIGH 7.1EPSS 0.45%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.45%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.1
- 7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.45% probability · 38th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125, CWE-787
- Affected
- qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79820Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034574Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929Issue Tracking
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79820Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034574Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264929Issue Tracking
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg00050.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.