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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8817

CVE-2015-8817

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built to use 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while doing pci_dma_read/write calls. Affects QEMU versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the guest instance resulting in DoS.

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