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CVE-2015-8666

Date: April 11, 2017

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU, when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.9

Related Resources (10)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79670

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/24/1

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8666

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8666

Url: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d9a3b33d2c9f996537b7f1d0246dee2d0120cefb

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8666

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-8666

Severity Score

7.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	CHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	3.3
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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