Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in QEMU's cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal Function

CVE-2015-8818 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal function in exec.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) does not properly skip MMIO regions, which allows local privileged guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.

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