CVE-2015-8504

medium
Published 2017-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Qemu, when built with VNC display driver support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arithmetic exception and application crash) via crafted SetPixelFormat messages from a client.

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-2015-8504

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289541

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.5+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.5+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.5+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.5+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.5+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.4.1"}
qemuqemu2.5.0

References

CWEs

CWE-369

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