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CVE-2015-5261

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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 read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.

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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/06/4
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033753
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2766-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261889
• 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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