CVE-2015-5154

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    CVE-2015-5154

    Published: 12 Aug 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    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://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://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-138.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-02, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03, http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-138.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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76048, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033074

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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