CVE-2015-5165

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-08-03
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

An information leak flaw was found in the way QEMU's RTL8139 emulation implementation processed network packets under RTL8139 controller's C+ mode of operation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to read up to 65 KB of uninitialized QEMU heap memory.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	3.3
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (qemu-kvm)	ELSA-2015-1833	2015-09-22
Oracle Linux version 7 (qemu-kvm)	ELSA-2015-1793	2015-09-15
Oracle VM version 3.2 (xen)	OVMSA-2015-0112	2015-08-04
Oracle VM version 3.3 (xen)	OVMSA-2015-0111	2015-08-04