CVE-2015-8504

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-369

Description

Qemu, when built with VNC display driver support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arithmetic exception and application crash) via crafted SetPixelFormat messages from a client.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
QEMU: through 2.4.1; 2.5.0-rc0, 2.5.0-rc1, 2.5.0-rc2

References

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4c65fed8bdf96780735dbdb92a8
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/08/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78708
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289541
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4c65fed8bdf96780735dbdb92a8
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471

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