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CVE-2015-5261

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Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-05

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261889

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2766-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033753

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/06/4

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3371

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1890.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1889.html

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-06-07

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00092

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