CVE-2015-5154

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 22
Modified
Published: 12 Aug 2015, 14:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 06:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
29/100
CVSS Score
7.2 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.39% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Aug 2015, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 06:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.39%• Percentile: 60%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    21 | 22 | 23

  • qemu•qemu

    ≤ 2.3.0

  • suse•linux_enterprise_debuginfo

    11:sp4

  • suse•linux_enterprise_desktop

    11:sp4 | 12

  • suse•linux_enterprise_server

    11:sp4

  • suse•linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

    11:sp4 | 12

  • suse•suse_linux_enterprise_server

    12

  • xen•xen

    ≤ 4.5.0 | 4.5.1

References (21)