CVE-2015-5260 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1889.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1890.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3371 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77019 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033753 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2766-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260822 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-05

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8