Spice
CVE-2015-5261
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, buffer size validation
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.09%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. |
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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. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checking. Enable ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries. Use safe string functions.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119), which allows attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. 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. Affected products include: Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus. Version information: before 0.12.6.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or poss
Stack-based buffer overflow in the reds_handle_ticket function in server/reds.c in SPICE 0.12.0 allows remote attackers
A flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely e
spice versions though 0.13 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds memory access when processing specially crafted messages from
Multiple integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were discovered in spice-client's handling of LZ compressed frames.
A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages l
Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory
Out-of-bounds heap reads and writes in spice-server's SPICE_MSGC_MIGRATE_DATA handling let an authenticated SPICE client
Spice, versions 0.5.2 through 0.14.1, are vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read due to an off-by-one error in memslot_get_
SPICE allows local guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary host memory locations via crafted primary surface p
Race condition in the worker_update_monitors_config function in SPICE 0.12.4 allows a remote authenticated guest user to
Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in the QUIC image decoding process of the SPICE remote display syste
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