PT-2015-5894 · Byzanz+1 · Byzanz+1

Murray Mcallister · Published 2015-03-29 · Updated 2015-03-30 · CVE-2015-2785

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Byzanz (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns a crafted Byzanz debug data recording (ByzanzRecording file) that can be used to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code when played back using the byzanz-playback command. This is due to an out-of-bounds heap write in the GIF encoder.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2785

Affected Products

Byzanz

Debian

References · 13

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2785 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2785 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/byzanz · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2785 · Security Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778261 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/06/11 · Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:byzanz · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852481 · Note