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.
Published: 2016-12-29
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3469-1 qemu security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3470-1 qemu-kvm security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3471-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8620 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2891-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:21.247Z

Reserved: 2016-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8743

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.200

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-8743

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-12-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8743 - Bugzilla

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