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Ubuntu: USN-3014-1 (CVE-2016-0749): Spice vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3014-1 (CVE-2016-0749): Spice vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/21/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libspice-server1

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