CVE-2015-5225
N/A
Published: November 6, 2015 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraQEMUOpenStack
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165484.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166798.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1772.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1837.html
References (12)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165484.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166798.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1772.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1837.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3348Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/6Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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