A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash.
Find out more about CVE-2016-9578 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (rhevm-appliance) | RHSA-2017:0552 | 2017-03-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (spice-server) | RHSA-2017:0253 | 2017-02-06 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (spice) | RHSA-2017:0254 | 2017-02-06 |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts | RHSA-2017:0549 | 2017-03-16 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| RHEV Manager 3 | rhev-hypervisor | Will not fix |
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