Name | CVE-2015-5225 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-3348-1 |
Debian Bugs | 796465 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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qemu (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:9.0.2+ds-2 | fixed |
| sid | 1:9.1.0+ds-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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qemu | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
qemu | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
qemu | source | jessie | 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u2 | | DSA-3348-1 | |
qemu | source | (unstable) | 1:2.4+dfsg-1a | | | 796465 |
qemu-kvm | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 2.1.0)
[squeeze] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 2.1.0)
- qemu-kvm <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 2.1.0)
Fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-08/msg02495.html
Introduced by: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=bea60dd7679364493a0d7f5b (v2.1.0-rc0)