CVE-2015-5225 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5225?

CVE-2015-5225 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 6 Nov 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5225?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Qemu Qemu, Redhat Openstack.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5225?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-5225 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5225 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5225, GHSA-xf7r-x3p2-rg72, RHSA-2015:1772, RHSA-2015:1837.