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CVE-2015-5165

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.3% 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-908

Description

The C+ mode offload emulation in the RTL8139 network card device model in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier, allows remote attackers to read process heap memory via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Arista Networks EOS: 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
• Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7-0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Compute Node Eus: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 (+1)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus Compute Node: 6.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian Eus: 6.7_ppc64, 7.1_ppc64, 7.2_ppc64, 7.3_ppc64, 7.4_ppc64, 7.5_ppc64 (+2)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Scientific Computing: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 (+1)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus From Rhui: 6.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server From Rhui: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.3, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Update Services For Sap Solutions: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• OpenStack: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Virtualization: 3.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp4, 11-sp1
• xen: through 4.5.0; 4.5.1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165373.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167792.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167820.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00018.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00027.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1674.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1683.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1739.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1740.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1793.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1833.html
• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201717

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