CVE-2015-5261

high

Published 2016-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

70%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.3`
sid	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.3`
forky	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.3`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.3`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.3`
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
spice_project	spice	`{"endIncluding":"0.12.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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