CVE-2015-5745

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

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3