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Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-25650: ELSA-2021-1791: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-25650: ELSA-2021-1791: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2020
Created
05/29/2021
Added
05/26/2021
Modified
11/29/2024

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

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-spice-vdagent

References

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