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CVE-2015-8818

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8818 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU, where the cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal function fails to correctly bypass MMIO regions. This flaw allows a local, privileged guest user to crash the guest system. Rated as medium severity (CVSS 5.5), it requires local access and low privileges to achieve a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.6.0-27.el7
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8818Low

Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault

Jan 27, 2016

References

git.qemu.org
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2670.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2671.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2704.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2705.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2706.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/03/01/10
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory