CVE-2015-5154

CVE Details

Release Date:2015-07-27

Description


A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's IDE subsystem handled I/O buffer access while processing certain ATAPI commands. A privileged guest user in a guest with the CDROM drive enabled could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the host's QEMU process corresponding to the guest.

See more information about CVE-2015-5154 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score: 6.5 Base Metrics: AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector: Adjacent network Attack Complexity: High
Authentication: Requires single instance Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete Availability Impact: Complete

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (qemu-kvm)ELSA-2015-15072015-07-27
Oracle VM version 3.2 (xen)OVMSA-2015-00962015-07-27
Oracle VM version 3.3 (xen)OVMSA-2015-00952015-07-27



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