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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2015-5154

CVE-2015-5154

UNKNOWN

Heap-based buffer overflow in the IDE subsystem in QEMU, as used in Xen 4

Published Aug 12, 2015

Modified 1 years ago

Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the IDE subsystem in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier, when the container has a CDROM drive enabled, allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified ATAPI commands.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163472.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163658.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163681.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00041.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00042.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00020.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00022.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00027.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1507.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1508.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1512.html

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201593

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3348

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76048

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033074

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-138.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-02

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5154

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

7.2

Exploitability

Access Vector

LocalAV:L

Access Complexity

LowAC:L

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

CompleteC:C

Integrity

CompleteI:C

Availability

CompleteA:C

7.2/AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedAug 12, 2015

ModifiedAug 6, 2024

CVE-2015-5154 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence