1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2766-1

USN-2766-1: Spice vulnerabilities

Publication date

7 October 2015

Overview

Spice could be made to crash or run programs.

Releases

Packages

  • spice - SPICE protocol client and server library

Details

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior
signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial
of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could
potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization. (CVE-2015-5260,
CVE-2015-5261)

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior
signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial
of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could
potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization. (CVE-2015-5260,
CVE-2015-5261)

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
15.04 vivid libspice-server1 –  0.12.5-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 trusty libspice-server1 –  0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2

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