CVE-2015-5239
Moderate
CVE-2015-5239
Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop.
Exploit probability
3.6%
Published
January 23, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2015-5239
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Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168077.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168646.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168671.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00011.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/02/7
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2745-1
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/f9a70e79391f6d7c2a912d785239ee8effc1922d
- https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1188-security-advisory-14