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CVE-2015-5225
Buffer overflow in the vnc_refresh_server_surface function in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest users to cause a…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.53%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 55% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the vnc_refresh_server_surface function in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.4.0.1 allows guest users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified vectors, related to refreshing the server display surface.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- [Qemu-deve] 20150915 [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.4.0.1 CVE update released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [Qemu-devel] 20150821 [PATCH] vnc: fix memory corruption (CVE-2015-5225) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1837 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-14783 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-3348 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-16368 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1772 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1033547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150822 CVE-2015-5225 Qemu: ui: vnc: heap memory corruption issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 76506 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-15364 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5221 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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