CVE-2015-5260
high
CVSS v3
7.8
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 advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5260
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5260.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.0 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.04 | affected | |
| debian | 7.0 | affected | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.12.5-1.3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.12.5-1.3 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.12.5-1.3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.12.5-1.3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.12.5-1.3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| spice_project | spice | {"endIncluding":"0.12.5"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5260.html
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html
- 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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77019
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033753
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2766-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260822
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-05
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5260
CWEs
CWE-119
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.