vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-10873: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 17, 2018
Added
Nov 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-spice
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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