CVE-2015-5225 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the VNC display driver of QEMU versions prior to 2.4.0.1, affecting products like Fedora and Red Hat OpenStack. This flaw allows guest users to trigger a denial of service through heap memory corruption and process crashes, or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host system. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it is a high-severity vulnerability requiring local access with low attack complexity, and could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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