CVE-2015-3247

medium

Published 2015-09-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.2`
sid	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.2`
forky	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.2`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.2`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.12.5-1.2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
spice_project	spice	`0.12.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-119 CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.