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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-3247: spice memory corruption in worker_update_monitors_config()

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-3247: spice memory corruption in worker_update_monitors_config()

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/08/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
02/14/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-spice

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