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Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2027-1 Critical: SPICE Crash Due To Malicious Traffic

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2013
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-5083-1 highlights a vulnerability in the OpenSSL library that might lead to denial-of-service through malformed input.
SPICE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

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

traffic.

Software Description:

- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library

Details:

Tomas Jamrisko discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in

SPICE tickets. An attacker could use this issue to cause the SPICE server

to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu network traffic spice

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
  libspice-server1                0.12.4-0nocelt1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
  libspice-server1                0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.2

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-2027-1

CVE-2013-4282

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November 12, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu network traffic spice

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.2-0nocelt2expubuntu1.2

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