PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-08-25
Candidate: CVE-2015-5225
PublicDate: 2015-11-06 21:59:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5225
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2724-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
 mdeslaur> introduced by:
 mdeslaur> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=bea60dd7679364493a0d7f5b
 mdeslaur> so precise and trusty are not affected
Bugs: 
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255896
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796465
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Qinghao Tang and Mr. Zuozhi
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_qemu-kvm:
upstream_qemu-kvm: needs-triage
precise_qemu-kvm: not-affected (code not present)
trusty_qemu-kvm: DNE
trusty/esm_qemu-kvm: DNE
vivid_qemu-kvm: DNE
devel_qemu-kvm: DNE

Patches_qemu:
 other: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-08/msg02495.html
upstream_qemu: needs-triage
precise_qemu: DNE
trusty_qemu: not-affected (code not present)
trusty/esm_qemu: not-affected (code not present)
vivid_qemu: released (1:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.4)
devel_qemu: released (1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu4)