CVE-2015-5745
mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
3.01% (87th) EPSS
CVSS 4 · medium
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
6.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6
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weaknesses
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affected products (9)
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (25)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/06/3cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/06/5cnnvd
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/7882080388be5088e72c425b02223c02e6cb4295cnnvd
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05458.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5745cnnvd
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