CVE-2015-8743
High
CVE-2015-8743
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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
December 29, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2015-8743
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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