Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2015-5154

Published: 27 July 2015

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
This is XSA-138
introduced by http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ce560dcf

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.15)
upstream Needs triage

utopic Ignored
(end of life)
vivid
Released (1:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.3)
Patches:
upstream: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05162.html
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d2ff85854512574e7209f295e87b0835d5b032c6
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=03441c3a4a42beb25460dd11592539030337d0f8
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=cb72cba83021fa42719e73a5249c12096a4d1cfc
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Not vulnerable
(1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.23)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

utopic Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

xen
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6)
trusty
Released (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
upstream Needs triage

utopic Ignored
(end of life)
vivid Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community.