qemu: ide: atapi: heap overflow during I/O buffer memory access
Published Aug 12, 2015
7.2
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.63%
Description
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 2
- 11
- 11
- 12
- 11
- 11
- 12
- 12
Configuration 3
- 21
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- 23
No data.
RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7
qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7_1.6
Fixed · RHSA-2015:1508
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-86.el7_1.5
Fixed · RHSA-2015:1507
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7
qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7_1.6
Fixed · RHSA-2015:1512
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7
qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7_1.6
Fixed · RHSA-2015:1512
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
kvm
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
xen
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
qemu-kvm
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)
qemu-kvm-rhev
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3
rhev-hypervisor
Affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7 | qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7_1.6 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:1508 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-86.el7_1.5 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:1507 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7_1.6 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:1512 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7_1.6 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:1512 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | xen | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 | rhev-hypervisor | Affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3, because they did not backport the upstream commit that introduced this issue. This issue does affect the versions of qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. Future updates for the respective releases will address this flaw.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.63% (0.00630) | 48.28th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.61% (0.00606) | 44.14th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.39% (0.00388) | 57.83th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00100) | 42.96th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 19, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00100) | 41.75th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 1, 2024 | 0.14% (0.00142) | 49.96th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 30, 2023 | 0.20% (0.00202) | 56.57th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.10% (0.00100) | 39.69th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 80.27th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 78.34th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 57.15th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5154 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243563 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5154
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