6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-3247

Published: 08/09/2015 Updated: 12/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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spice project spice 0.12.4

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Debian Bug report logs - #797976 spice: CVE-2015-3247: memory corruption in worker_update_monitors_config() Package: src:spice; Maintainer for src:spice is Liang Guo <guoliang@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 06:24:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, ...
Spice could be made to crash or run programs ...
Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat discovered a race condition flaw in spice's worker_update_monitors_config() function, leading to a heap-based memory corruption A malicious user in a guest can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or, potentially execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hostin ...