CVE-2015-3209 describes a critical heap-based buffer overflow in the PCNET controller within QEMU, impacting numerous products including Arista, Canonical, Debian, Fedora, Juniper, Red Hat, and SUSE. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with high severity, as it requires no authentication and has low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While the FAUCET Risk Score is high at 88/100 and its EPSS score indicates a higher-than-average exploitability probability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:junos_space:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.