An information leak flaw was found in the way QEMU's RTL8139 emulation implementation processed network packets under RTL8139 controller's C+ mode of operation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to read up to 65 KB of uninitialized QEMU heap memory.
Find out more about CVE-2015-5165 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects 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.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and
maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate 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/
| Base Score | 3.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2015:1683 | 2015-08-25 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2015:1683 | 2015-08-25 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2015:1674 | 2015-08-24 |
| RHEV Agents (vdsm) (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2015:1740 | 2015-09-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2015:1833 | 2015-09-22 |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2015:1739 | 2015-09-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (qemu-kvm) | RHSA-2015:1793 | 2015-09-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 (qemu-kvm-rhev) | RHSA-2015:1718 | 2015-09-03 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | xen | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Will not fix |
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