CVE-2015-5260

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-09-08
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way spice handled certain QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter. A user in a guest could use this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM process or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process.

See more information about CVE-2015-5260 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (spice-server)	ELSA-2015-1889	2015-10-12
Oracle Linux version 7 (spice)	ELSA-2015-1890	2015-10-12