The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the IDE subsystem of the QEMU component in the Xen hypervisor is caused by a buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker acting locally to execute arbitrary code when the compact disk drive is turned on...

PT-2015-3067

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the QEMU emulator's handling of ATAPI devices, where it fails to properly restrict commands accepted from these devices. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cau...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6855

hw/ide/core.c in QEMU does not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allows guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WINREADNATIVEMAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in IDE disk/CD/DVD-ROM emulation

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM emulation support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while executing an IDE command WINREADNATIVEMAX to determine the maximum size of a drive. A privileged user insid...

Debian DSA-3348-1 : qemu - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator. - CVE-2015-3214 Matt Tait of Google's Project Zero security team discovered a flaw in the QEMU i8254 PIT emulation. A privileged guest user in a guest with QEMU PIT emulation enabled could potentially use this flaw to...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3348-1 (qemu - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator. CVE-2015-3214 Matt Tait of Google OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3348.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3348-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script version: 1.0 Author: Greenbone Networks...

Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.3-9.fc21 (2015-13404)

Fix crash in qemuspicecreatedisplay bz 1163047 CVE-2015-3209: pcnet: multi-tmd buffer overflow in the tx path bz 1230536 CVE-2015-3214: i8254: out-of-bounds memory access bz 1243728 CVE-2015-5154: ide: atapi: heap overflow during I/O buffer memory access bz 1247141 CVE-2015-5745: buffer overflow...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2015:1455-1)

kvm was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM bsc938344. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2724-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2724-1 advisory. It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled a PRDT with zero complete sectors in the IDE functionality. A malicious guest could possibly use this iss...

USN-2724-1 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled a PRDT with zero complete sectors in the IDE functionality. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-9718 Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2015:1426-1)

kvm was updated to fix two security issues. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM bsc938344. - CVE-2015-3209: Fix buffer overflow in pcnet emulation bsc932770. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1421-1)

Xen was updated to fix the following security issues : - CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM bsc938344 - CVE-2015-5165: QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model XSA-140, bsc939712 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

SUSE-SU-2015:1472-1 Security update for kvm

kvm was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM bsc938344...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1408-1)

This security update of Xen fixes the following issues : - bsc939712 XSA-140: QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model CVE-2015-5165 - bsc938344: qemu,kvm,xen: host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM CVE-2015-5154 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5154

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...

CVE-2015-5154

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...

CVE-2015-5154

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...

CVE-2015-5154

CVE-2015-5154 is a heap-based buffer overflow in QEMU’s IDE subsystem (ATAPI handling). A privileged guest with a CDROM drive enabled could potentially execute arbitrary host code via crafted ATAPI I/O. Public docs specify this as a host-attack surface when CD-ROM access is present; Debian securi...

CVE-2015-5154

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...

CVE-2015-5154: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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...