1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3659-1

USN-3659-1: Spice vulnerability

Publication date

23 May 2018

Overview

Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

Packages

Details

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain client
messages. An attacker could possibly use this to cause Spice to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain client
messages. An attacker could possibly use this to cause Spice to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 bionic libspice-server1 –  0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1
17.10 artful libspice-server1 –  0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial libspice-protocol-dev –  0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 trusty libspice-server1 –  0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6

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