CVE-2015-5260

Publication date 8 September 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
spice 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
15.10 wily
Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
15.04 vivid
Fixed 0.12.5-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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