CVE-2014-7815

medium
Published 2014-11-14 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

redhat Red Hat Affected 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.7 Affected โ€”
7.6 Affected โ€”
7.5 Affected โ€”
7.4 Affected โ€”
7.3 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
12 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
10.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.1+dfsg-7
sid Fixed 2.1+dfsg-7
forky Fixed 2.1+dfsg-7
bullseye Fixed 2.1+dfsg-7
bookworm Fixed 2.1+dfsg-7
7.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.1.3"}
redhat redhatvirtualization3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.