CVE-2015-5279

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ne2000_receive function in hw/net/ne2000.c in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to receiving packets.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.4.0

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7aa2bcad0ca837dd6d4bf4fa38a80314b4a6b755
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169036.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167369.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1896.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1923.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1924.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1925.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3361
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3362
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/15/3

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