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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in spice affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance (CVE-2015-5261, CVE-2015-5260)

Created by Shyamala Rajagopalan on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/599147
599147

Security Bulletin


Summary

Vulnerability spice affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance (CVE-2015-5261, CVE-2015-5260).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5261
DESCRIPTION: Red Hat spice is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. By sending specially crafted QXL command, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106978 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2015-5260
DESCRIPTION: Red Hat spice is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when handling certain QXL commands related to the "surface_id" parameter. By sending an overly long QXL command, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the QEMU-KVM process on the host system to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106977 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance

Remediation/Fixes

If you are running IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance, contact IBM support.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

* 10 December 2015: Original copy published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg2C1000009

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