CVE-2015-5239 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1 https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/f9a70e79391f6d7c2a912d785239ee8effc1922d

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5