CVE-2015-5239
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · CWE-835
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.htmlAdvisory