CVE-2015-5260

Publication date 8 September 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
spice	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
	15.10 wily	Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2
	15.04 vivid	Fixed 0.12.5-1ubuntu0.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2766-1
Spice vulnerabilities
7 October 2015