CVE-2015-5297

Publication date 31 December 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An integer overflow issue has been reported in the general_composite_rect() function in pixman prior to version 0.32.8. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause an application using pixman to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pixman	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.30.2-2ubuntu1.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
pixman	Upstream: ?id=f10 Upstream: ?id=15a Upstream: ?id=8b4 Upstream: ?id=235

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3843-2
pixman vulnerability
11 December 2018

USN-3843-1
pixman vulnerability
11 December 2018

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5297