CVE-2015-5260

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    CVE-2015-5260

    Published: 7 Jun 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1889.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1890.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3371, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2766-1, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-05, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260822, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77019, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033753

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High