CVE-2015-5260
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · Memory corruption
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- 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