Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8666 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
HIGH Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU, when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-2C15B72B01.NASL description PV superpage functionality missing sanity checks [XSA-167, CVE-2016-1570] VMX: intercept issue with INVLPG on non-canonical address [XSA-168, CVE-2016-1571] Qemu: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue CVE-2015-7549 qemu: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state CVE-2015-8558 qemu: Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration CVE-2015-8666 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash via assert(2) call CVE-2015-8744 qemu: Support reading IMR registers on bar0 CVE-2015-8745 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage CVE-2015-8567 CVE-2015-8568 Qemu: net: ne2000: OOB memory access in ioport r/w functions CVE-2015-8743 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89503 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89503 title Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-7.fc23 (2016-2c15b72b01) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-E1784417AF.NASL description PV superpage functionality missing sanity checks [XSA-167, CVE-2016-1570] VMX: intercept issue with INVLPG on non-canonical address [XSA-168, CVE-2016-1571] Qemu: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue CVE-2015-7549 qemu: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state CVE-2015-8558 qemu: Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration CVE-2015-8666 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: incorrect l2 header validation leads to a crash via assert(2) call CVE-2015-8744 qemu: Support reading IMR registers on bar0 CVE-2015-8745 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage CVE-2015-8567 CVE-2015-8568 Qemu: net: ne2000: OOB memory access in ioport r/w functions CVE-2015-8743 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89624 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89624 title Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-7.fc22 (2016-e1784417af) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1497.NASL description Several vulnerabilities were found in qemu, a fast processor emulator : CVE-2015-8666 Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator CVE-2016-2198 NULL pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write in the USB EHCI support that may result in denial of service CVE-2016-6833 Use after free while writing in the vmxnet3 device that could be used to cause a denial of service CVE-2016-6835 Buffer overflow in vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers() in vmxnet3 device that could result in denial of service CVE-2016-8576 Infinite loop vulnerability in xhci_ring_fetch in the USB xHCI support CVE-2016-8667 / CVE-2016-8669 Divide by zero errors in set_next_tick in the JAZZ RC4030 chipset emulator, and in serial_update_parameters of some serial devices, that could result in denial of service CVE-2016-9602 Improper link following with VirtFS CVE-2016-9603 Heap buffer overflow via vnc connection in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support CVE-2016-9776 Infinite loop while receiving data in the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator CVE-2016-9907 Memory leakage in the USB redirector usb-guest support CVE-2016-9911 Memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer in the USB EHCI support CVE-2016-9914 / CVE-2016-9915 / CVE-2016-9916 Plan 9 File System (9pfs): add missing cleanup operation in FileOperations, in the handle backend and in the proxy backend driver CVE-2016-9921 / CVE-2016-9922 Divide by zero in cirrus_do_copy in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support CVE-2016-10155 Memory leak in hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.c allowing local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service via a large number of device unplug operations. CVE-2017-2615 / CVE-2017-2620 / CVE-2017-18030 / CVE-2018-5683 / CVE-2017-7718 Out-of-bounds access issues in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator support, that could result in denial of service CVE-2017-5525 / CVE-2017-5526 Memory leakage issues in the ac97 and es1370 device emulation CVE-2017-5579 Most memory leakage in the 16550A UART emulation CVE-2017-5667 Out-of-bounds access during multi block SDMA transfer in the SDHCI emulation support. CVE-2017-5715 Mitigations against the Spectre v2 vulnerability. For more information please refer to https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/ CVE-2017-5856 Memory leak in the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support CVE-2017-5973 / CVE-2017-5987 / CVE-2017-6505 Infinite loop issues in the USB xHCI, in the transfer mode register of the SDHCI protocol, and the USB ohci_service_ed_list CVE-2017-7377 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create CVE-2017-7493 Improper access control issues in the host directory sharing via 9pfs support. CVE-2017-7980 Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA device that could allow local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service CVE-2017-8086 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9pfs_list_xattr CVE-2017-8112 Infinite loop in the VMWare PVSCSI emulation CVE-2017-8309 / CVE-2017-8379 Host memory leakage issues via the audio capture buffer and the keyboard input event handlers CVE-2017-9330 Infinite loop due to incorrect return value in USB OHCI that may result in denial of service CVE-2017-9373 / CVE-2017-9374 Host memory leakage during hot unplug in IDE AHCI and USB emulated devices that could result in denial of service CVE-2017-9503 NULL pointer dereference while processing megasas command CVE-2017-10806 Stack buffer overflow in USB redirector CVE-2017-10911 Xen disk may leak stack data via response ring CVE-2017-11434 Out-of-bounds read while parsing Slirp/DHCP options CVE-2017-14167 Out-of-bounds access while processing multiboot headers that could result in the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2017-15038 9pfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes CVE-2017-15289 Out-of-bounds write access issue in the Cirrus graphic adaptor that could result in denial of service CVE-2017-16845 Information leak in the PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation support that could be exploited during instance migration CVE-2017-18043 Integer overflow in the macro ROUND_UP (n, d) that could result in denial of service CVE-2018-7550 Incorrect handling of memory during multiboot that could may result in execution of arbitrary code For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117351 published 2018-09-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117351 title Debian DLA-1497-1 : qemu security update (Spectre) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2891-1.NASL description Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled PCI MSI-X support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-7549) Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VNC server. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8504) Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. (CVE-2015-8550) Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8558) Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the vmxnet3 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8567, CVE-2015-8568) Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SCSI MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8613) Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Human Monitor Interface. A local attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8619, CVE-2016-1922) David Alan Gilbert discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Q35 chipset emulation when performing VM guest migrations. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8666) Ling Liu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the NE2000 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8743) It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the vmxnet3 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-8744, CVE-2015-8745) Qinghao Tang discovered that QEMU incorrect handled IDE AHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-1568) Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU incorrect handled the firmware configuration device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-1714) It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the e1000 device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1981) Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled IDE AHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-2197) Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-2198). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88576 published 2016-02-04 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88576 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 15.10 : qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities (USN-2891-1) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201602-01.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201602-01 (QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker might cause a Denial of Service or gain escalated privileges from a guest VM. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88587 published 2016-02-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88587 title GLSA-201602-01 : QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (Venom) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-E9BBA2BB01.NASL description - CVE-2015-7549: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue (bz #1291138) * CVE-2015-8558: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state (bz #1291309) * CVE-2015-8666: Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration (bz #1294027) * CVE-2015-8744: vmxnet3: fix crash with short packets (bz #1295440) * CVE-2015-8745: vmxnet3: don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89634 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89634 title Fedora 23 : qemu-2.4.1-5.fc23 (2016-e9bba2bb01) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_152ACFF3B1BD11E59728002590263BF5.NASL description Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports : Qemu emulator built with the Q35 chipset based pc system emulator is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow. It occurs during VM guest migration, as more(16 bytes) data is moved into allocated (8 bytes) memory area. A privileged guest user could use this issue to corrupt the VM guest image, potentially leading to a DoS. This issue affects q35 machine types. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 87687 published 2016-01-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87687 title FreeBSD : qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in Q35 chipset emulation (152acff3-b1bd-11e5-9728-002590263bf5) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-890E612F52.NASL description - CVE-2015-7549: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue (bz #1291138) * CVE-2015-8558: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state (bz #1291309) * CVE-2015-8666: Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration (bz #1294027) * CVE-2015-8744: vmxnet3: fix crash with short packets (bz #1295440) * CVE-2015-8745: vmxnet3: don last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89574 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89574 title Fedora 22 : qemu-2.3.1-10.fc22 (2016-890e612f52)
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | No description provided by source. |
| id | SSV:90195 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2015-12-30 |
| published | 2015-12-30 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | QEMU堆缓冲区溢出漏洞(CVE-2015-8666) |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79670
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/24/1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d9a3b33d2c9f996537b7f1d0246dee2d0120cefb