DSA-3790-1 spice -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9577   CVE-2016-9578  

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-9577 Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the main_channel_alloc_msg_rcv_buf function. An authenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (spice server crash), or possibly, execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-9578 Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat discovered that spice does not properly validate incoming messages. An attacker able to connect to the spice server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.5-1+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.8-2.1. We recommend that you upgrade your spice packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3790-1 spice -- security update

Date Reported:
16 Feb 2017
Affected Packages:
spice
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 854336.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9577, CVE-2016-9578.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2016-9577

    Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the main_channel_alloc_msg_rcv_buf function. An authenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (spice server crash), or possibly, execute arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2016-9578

    Frediano Ziglio of Red Hat discovered that spice does not properly validate incoming messages. An attacker able to connect to the spice server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.5-1+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.8-2.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spice packages.