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CVE-2015-5261

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Date: June 7, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.1

Related Resources (13)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5261

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

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

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5261

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5261

Severity Score

7.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v0.12.6

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	3.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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