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Debian 8 Jessie: DLA-1489-1 Moderate: Spice-Gtk Message Handling Crash

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 1, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Weakness found in SPICE prior to release 0.14.1 may result in possible system crashes. Update spice-gtk to resolve issues. CVE-2018-10873.
A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks
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security advisory moderate Debian authentication crash message handling spice-gtk

Summary

The above issue and fix have already been announced for the "spice"
Debian package (as DLA-1486-1 [1]). This announcement is about the
"spice-gtk" Debian package (which ships some copies of code from the
"spice" package, where the fix of this issue had to be applied).

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00037.html

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version
0.25-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spice-gtk packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: spice-gtk
Version: 0.25-1+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-10873
Debian Bug: 906316

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security advisory moderate Debian authentication crash message handling spice-gtk

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