CVE-2015-5260
spice: insufficient validation of surface_id parameter can cause crash
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · September 8, 2015
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way spice handled certain QXL commands related to the "surface_id" parameter. A user in a guest could use this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM process or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 5.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation