CVE-2015-3247

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Race condition in the worker_update_monitors_config function in SPICE 0.12.4 allows a remote authenticated guest user to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
The SPICE Project spice: 0.12.4

References

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1713.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1714.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1715.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3354
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033459
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033460
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033753
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2736-1
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-October/022191.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00018.html

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