CVE-2015-5158

A flaw has been discovered in the QEMU emulator built with SCSI-device emulation support. The emulator is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow issue, which can occur while parsing a SCSI command descriptor block with an invalid operation code. A privileged(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

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

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

This issue does not affect the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This issue does not affect the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

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