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CVE-2015-5225
Buffer overflow in the vnc_refresh_server_surface function in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest users to cause a…
High7.2EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Buffer overflow in the vnc_refresh_server_surface function in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified vectors, related to refreshing the server display surface.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- [Qemu-deve] 20150915 [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.4.0.1 CVE update released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [Qemu-devel] 20150821 [PATCH] vnc: fix memory corruption (CVE-2015-5225) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1837 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-14783 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-3348 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-16368 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1772 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1033547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150822 CVE-2015-5225 Qemu: ui: vnc: heap memory corruption issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 76506 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-15364 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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