CVE-2015-5260

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-09-08

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

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	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

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