USN-3751-1: Spice vulnerability

Publication date

22 August 2018

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

It was discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

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

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	libspice-server1 – 0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2
16.04 xenial	libspice-protocol-dev – 0.12.10-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 trusty	libspice-server1 – 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.7

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