CVE-2015-3214

medium
Published 2015-08-31 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

The pit_ioport_read in i8254.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 and QEMU before 2.3.1 does not distinguish between read lengths and write lengths, which might allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by triggering use of an invalid index.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3214

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ee73f656a604d5aa9df86a97102e4e462dd79924

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ee73f656a604d5aa9df86a97102e4e462dd79924

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected
redhat rhel7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.3.0"}
redhatopenstack5.0
redhatopenstack6.0
redhatvirtualization3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.