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Debian: CVE-2020-25650: spice-vdagent -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-25650: spice-vdagent -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/25/2020
Created
01/15/2021
Added
01/14/2021
Modified
01/14/2021

Description

A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine. Any unprivileged local guest user with access to the UNIX domain socket path `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock` could use this flaw to perform a memory denial of service for spice-vdagentd or even other processes in the VM system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and previous versions.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-spice-vdagent

References

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