CVE-2015-5261

Publication date 6 October 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 read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.

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

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.1 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2766-1
Spice vulnerabilities
7 October 2015

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5261