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CVE-2015-3247

spice: memory corruption in worker_update_monitors_config()

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.7

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 3, 2015

Updated · November 2, 2026

Description

A race condition flaw, leading to a heap-based memory corruption, was found in spice's worker_update_monitors_config() function, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user in a guest could leverage this flaw to crash the host QEMU-KVM process or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 7.7
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization