CVE-2015-8817

Name	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
qemu (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23	vulnerable
	stretch (security)	1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17	fixed
	stretch (lts), stretch	1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12	fixed
	bullseye	1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7	fixed
	sid, trixie	1:9.1.1+ds-5	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
qemu	source	squeeze	(not affected)
qemu	source	wheezy	(not affected)
qemu	source	(unstable)	1:2.4+dfsg-1a
qemu-kvm	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

[jessie] - qemu <ignored> (Minor issue; too dangerous backport)
[wheezy] - qemu <not-affected> (Affects Qemu versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1)
[squeeze] - qemu <not-affected> (Affects Qemu versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1)
- qemu-kvm <not-affected> (Affects Qemu versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c3c1bb99d1c11978d9ce94d1bdcf0705378c1459 (v2.3.0-rc1)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-01/msg00060.html
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=23820dbfc79d1c9dce090b4c555994f2bb6a69b3 (v2.4.0-rc0)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-01/msg00065.html