CVE-2015-5745

medium

Description

Buffer overflow in the send_control_msg function in hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c in QEMU before 2.4.0 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via a crafted virtio control message.

References

Advisories

https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1180-security-advisory-13

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05458.html

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/7882080388be5088e72c425b02223c02e6cb4295

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/06/3

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-23

Updated: 2022-02-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H