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CVE-2014-7815

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7815 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the set_pixel_format function within ui/vnc.c of QEMU, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, Red Hat, and SUSE. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the system by providing a small bytes_per_pixel value, indicating a low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0374 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-86.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.1.2-23.el7
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7815Moderate

qemu: vnc: insufficient bits_per_pixel from the client sanitization

Oct 27, 2014

References

git.qemu.org
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00019.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0349.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0624.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/61484
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62143
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62144
Third Party Advisory
support.citrix.com / article/CTX200892
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3066
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3067
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2409-1
Third Party Advisory