CVE-2015-5745

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-07-23
CWE:
CWE-122
Bugzilla:
1251157: CVE-2015-5745 kernel: qemu buffer overflow in virtio-serial

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5745 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the versions of kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue affects the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently
planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.2
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm-rhev Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-kvm Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-guest-agent Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-kvm Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm Not affected

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