CVE-2015-5260

high
Published 2016-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5260

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5260.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.12.5-1.3
debian debianbullseyefixed0.12.5-1.3
debian debianforkyfixed0.12.5-1.3
debian debiansidfixed0.12.5-1.3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.12.5-1.3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
spice_projectspice{"endIncluding":"0.12.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.