CVE-2015-5154

high

Published 2015-08-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
suse	11	affected
suse	12	affected
fedora	21	affected
fedora	22	affected
fedora	23	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.4+dfsg-1a`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.4+dfsg-1a`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.4+dfsg-1a`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.4+dfsg-1a`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.4+dfsg-1a`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
suse	linux_enterprise_debuginfo	`11`
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.3.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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