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Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-25652: spice-vdagent (RLSA-2021-1791)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-25652: spice-vdagent (RLSA-2021-1791)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/26/2020
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/12/2024

Description

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-spice-vdagent
  • rocky-upgrade-spice-vdagent-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-spice-vdagent-debugsource

References

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