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CVE-2015-5260

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.7.z, 7.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• The SPICE Project spice: through 0.12.5

References

• 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
• http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1889.html

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