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CVE-2015-5185

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5185 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in sblim-sfcb versions 1.3.4 and 1.3.18, affecting openSUSE and Standards Based Linux Instrumentation. A remote attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by sending a packet with an empty className to the lookupProviders function. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:standards_based_linux_instrumentation:sblim-sfcb:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:standards_based_linux_instrumentation:sblim-sfcb:1.3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0336 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sblim-sfcb
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: sblim-sfcb

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5185Moderate

sblim-sfcb: lookupProviders() null pointer dereference

Aug 20, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172634.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172659.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172667.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00019.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/2
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/91212