CVE-2015-5158
MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 8, 2016 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQEMU
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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76016VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033095Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg04558.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-02CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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