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CVE-2015-8666

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU, when built with the Q35-chipset-based PC system emulator.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• QEMU: through 2.4.1; 2.5.0-rc0

References

• http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d9a3b33d2c9f996537b7f1d0246dee2d0120cefb
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/24/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79670
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
• http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d9a3b33d2c9f996537b7f1d0246dee2d0120cefb
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/24/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79670
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

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