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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-7506)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 18, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Two security issues have been found in spice <= 0.12.8, allowing a remote, authenticated user to get access to memory content by sending a number of monitors bigger than the number of items, and to trigger an integer overflow of the buffer_size variable, leading to a potentially exploitable buffer overflow.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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