Updated spice packages fix CVE-2015-3247
Publication date: 15 Sep 2015Modification date: 15 Sep 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4 , 5
CVE: CVE-2015-3247
Description
Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability: 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 (CVE-2015-3247).
References
SRPMS
5/core
- spice-0.12.5-2.1.mga5
4/core
- spice-0.12.4-4.1.mga4