Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2785

Title: Gnome Byzanz RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2785.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 29, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2785: The GIF encoder in Byzanz allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Byzanz debug data recording (ByzanzRecording file) to the byzanz-playback command.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/06/11 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778261 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852481 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/06/11 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778261 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852481

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2785 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 29, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.