vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2015-5745: kernel: qemu buffer overflow in virtio-serial

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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