CVE-2015-5154 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5154?

CVE-2015-5154 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Aug 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5154?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Qemu Qemu, Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5154?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-5154 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5154 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5154, GHSA-j9wc-jv66-352g, SUSE-SU-2015:1409-1, SUSE-SU-2015:1455-1, SUSE-SU-2015:1472-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5154.