| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3348-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 796465 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu (PTS) | buster | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 1:7.2+dfsg-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
[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)