CVE-2015-5239

medium

Description

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.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/f9a70e79391f6d7c2a912d785239ee8effc1922d

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html

https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-01-23

Updated: 2022-01-25

Type: CWE-835

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM