ubuntu · CVE-2015-5261

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Priority: medium Published: 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:41:24 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-5261 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (spice), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 6, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

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.

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