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Ubuntu: USN-4617-1 (CVE-2020-25652): SPICE vdagent vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4617-1 (CVE-2020-25652): SPICE vdagent vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/04/2020
Created
11/07/2020
Added
11/05/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-spice-vdagent

References

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