=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1926-1
August 14, 2013

spice vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.04

Summary:

SPICE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network
traffic.

Software Description:
- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library

Details:

David Gibson discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled certain network
errors. An attacker could use this issue to cause the SPICE server to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  libspice-server1                0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using the
SPICE protocol, such as QEMU, to make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1926-1
  CVE-2013-4130

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.1


Ubuntu 1926-1: SPICE vulnerability

August 14, 2013
SPICE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 13.04: libspice-server1 0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.1 After a standard system update you need to restart applications using the SPICE protocol, such as QEMU, to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1926-1

CVE-2013-4130

Severity
August 14, 2013

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.1

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