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high 7.9

CVE-2015-8666 json

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

published 2017-04-11 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-8543

cvss
7.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:2.5+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8666

  • qemu Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8666

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8666 updated cvss 2.9

Qemu: acpi: heap based buffer overrun during VM migration

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-kvm-tools, libcacard-tools, qemu-kvm-common, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) qemu-kvm-rhev Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) qemu-img-rhev, qemu-kvm-rhev, libcacard-rhev, qemu-kvm-tools-rhev, libcacard-devel-rhev, libcacard-tools-rhev, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 3.3 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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