CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-8743

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

QEMU with NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB (out-of-bounds) access issue during r/w operations on 'ioport'. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user/process could exploit this flaw to leak or corrupt QEMU memory bytes.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized memory access, posing a risk of data leakage or destabilizing the virtualization system's operation.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update QEMU to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and restrict CAP_SYS_RAWIO access to trusted users only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS