CVE-2015-5247
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
The virStorageVolCreateXML API in libvirt 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 allows remote authenticated users with a read-write connection to cause a denial of service (libvirtd crash) by triggering a failed unlink after creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 15.10 | Affected | — |
| 15.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.2.20-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.2.20-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.2.20-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.2.20-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.2.20-1 |
References
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.