What is CVE-2015-5158?

CVE-2015-5158 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-04-12.

How severe is CVE-2015-5158?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Qemu

CVE-2015-5158

Stack-based buffer overflow in hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c in QEMU, when built with SCSI-device emulation support, allows guest OS users with CAP_SYS_RAWIO permissions to cause a denial of service (instance crash) via an invalid opcode in a SCSI command descriptor block.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (35.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Qemu — versions 2.4.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5158?: CVE-2015-5158 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-04-12.
How severe is CVE-2015-5158?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.