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


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (spice-server)ELSA-2015-18892015-10-12
Oracle Linux version 7 (spice)ELSA-2015-18902015-10-12



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