Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3870-1

USN-3870-1: Spice vulnerability

Publication date

28 January 2019

Overview

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

Releases

18.10 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

spice - SPICE protocol client and server library

Details

Christophe Fergeau discovered that Spice incorrectly handled memory. A
remote attacker could 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
18.10 cosmic	libspice-server1 – 0.14.0-1ubuntu4.2
18.04 bionic	libspice-server1 – 0.14.0-1ubuntu2.4
16.04 xenial	libspice-server1 – 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.4
14.04 trusty	libspice-server1 – 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.8

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References

CVE-2019-3813

CVE-2019-3813