CVE-2015-5239

high-risk

Published 2020-01-23

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.

Do I need to act?

5.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Qemu

Fedora

Ubuntu Linux

Linux Enterprise Debuginfo

Linux Enterprise Desktop

Linux Enterprise Server

Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit

Eos

Affected Vendors

Suse Canonical Fedoraproject Qemu Arista

References (20)

Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.ht...

Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.ht...

Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.ht...

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.html

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7

Patch http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1

Patch https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/f9a70e79391f6d7c2a912d785239ee8effc1922d

Third Party Advisory https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-se...