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CVE-2015-5239
Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a…
Medium6.5EPSS 3.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 11% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Integer Overflow
- CWE-835 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
QEMU · QEMU
- affected before 2.1.0
References (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/f9a70e79391f6d7c2a912d785239ee8effc1922d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
Record last updated .