CVE-2015-3247

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.

Published: 2015-09-08 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-3247 is rated Moderate Risk (53/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.77%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-3247

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-06-15 0.69% 0.77% +0.08%
2 2025-03-30 1.05% 0.69% -0.36%
3 2025-03-29 — 1.05% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-3247

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.9 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.4 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-3247

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-3247

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-3247 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (spice), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3247
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3247
suse high CVE-2015-3247 severity important: SUSE including 39 source package names (libspice-server-devel, libspice-server-devel-0.12.4-5.1, …), 109 product×package rows across 67 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Enterprise Storage 5, … (67 product lines)): Known Not Affected 58, Fixed 51. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3247/
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-3247 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (spice), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid): released 2, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3247

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-3247

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
spice_project spice 0.12.4 cpe:2.3:a:spice_project:spice:0.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_hpc_node 6 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_hpc_node 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_server 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-3247

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