CVE-2015-5166

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2724-1

Posted Aug 27, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2724-1 - It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled a PRDT with zero complete sectors in the IDE functionality. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the RTL8139 driver. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information from arbitrary host memory. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-9718, CVE-2015-5165, CVE-2015-5166, CVE-2015-5225, CVE-2015-5745

SHA-256 | 80b79018159461f757b7f8b7bcd9805650ddf859a2e27b6be0a84adade307939

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