[USN-3659-1] Spice vulnerability
Leonidas S. Barbosa
leo.barbosa at canonical.com
Thu May 24 12:08:19 UTC 2018
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3659-1
May 23, 2018
spice, spice-protocol vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially
crafted network traffic.
Software Description:
- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library
- spice-protocol: SPICE protocol headers
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.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 17.10:
libspice-server1 0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libspice-protocol-dev 0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libspice-server1 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6
After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3659-1
CVE-2017-12194
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-protocol/0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6
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