Medium severity · published Jan 23, 2020
CVE-2015-5745
Buffer overflow in the send_control_msg function in hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c in QEMU before 2.4.0 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via a…
6.5
CVSS
3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Buffer overflow in the send_control_msg function in hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c in QEMU before 2.4.0 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via a crafted virtio control message.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.0% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EO
Eos · Arista
4.12; 4.13; 4.14; 4.15 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
21; 22; 23 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
before 2.4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5745
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5745
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/06/3
Exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/06/5
Patch
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/7882080388be5088e72c425b02223c02e6cb4295
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