cve-2015-5225
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-06 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:41
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.38% (0.58398)
Summary
Buffer overflow in the vnc_refresh_server_surface function in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified vectors, related to refreshing the server display surface.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165484.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166798.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1772.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1837.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3348
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/6
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76506
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033547
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-08/msg02495.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg05832.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165484.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166798.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1772.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1837.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3348
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76506
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033547
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-08/msg02495.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg05832.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
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