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CVE-2015-5260

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5260 describes a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in SPICE versions prior to 0.12.6, impacting products from Canonical, Debian, Red Hat, and the SPICE project. This flaw allows a low-privileged guest OS user to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host system. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), the attack requires local access and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.7.zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:6.7.z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: spice-server-0:0.12.4-12.el6_7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: spice-0:0.12.4-9.el7_1.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5260Moderate

spice: insufficient validation of surface_id parameter can cause crash

Sep 8, 2015

References

lists.freedesktop.org / archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1889.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1890.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201606-05
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3371
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/77019
securitytracker.com / id/1033753
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2766-1