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CVE-2016-9577

Published: 31 December 2016

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send crafted messages to the SPICE server causing a heap overflow leading to a crash or possible code execution.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
spice
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty
Released (0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.4)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0.12.6-4ubuntu0.2)
yakkety
Released (0.12.8-1ubuntu0.1)
zesty
Released (0.12.8-2ubuntu1)
Patches:
upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/commit/?h=0.12&id=5f96b596353d73bdf4bb3cd2de61e48a7fd5b4c3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H