Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU - CVE-2015-5154

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Heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU - CVE-2015-5154

Published: August 12, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32399
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5154
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in 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,. A remote attacker can use unspecified ATAPI commands. to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

QEMU
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
SUSE Linux
qemu (Alpine package)
xen (Alpine package)
qemu
app-emulation/qemu
xen

How to mitigate CVE-2015-5154

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

qemu (Alpine package) - update to 2.1.3-r2
xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.5.1-r2
qemu - addressed in versions 2.0.0-1.el7.6, 2.1.3-9.fc21, 2.3.0-7.fc22, 2.3.1-1.fc22, 2.4.0-0.2.rc4.fc23, 2.4.0-1.fc23
app-emulation/qemu - update to 2.3.0-r4
xen - addressed in versions 4.4.2-9.fc21, 4.5.1-5.fc22, 4.5.1-5.fc23

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