CVE-2015-5154

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22, 23
QEMU: through 2.3.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp4, 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp4, 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12
xen: through 4.5.0; 4.5.1

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://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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1507.html

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