CVE-2015-5260: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 6.7.z only; version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Spice Project Spice: up to and including 0.12.5

Published 2016-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.