CVE-2015-8818: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.3.1

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.