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 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.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:openstack
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169039.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165484.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166798.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1772.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1837.html