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CVE-2014-7815

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• QEMU: through 2.1.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• RedHat Virtualization: 3.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12

References

• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e6908bfe8e07f2b452e78e677da1b45b1c0f6829
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0624.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61484
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62143
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62144
• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200892
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3066
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3067
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157641

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