vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-25650: CVE-2020-25650 spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 25, 2020
Added
May 21, 2021
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-spice-vdagentredhat-upgrade-spice-vdagent-debuginforedhat-upgrade-spice-vdagent-debugsource
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