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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - USN-3659-1 Moderate: Spice Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2018
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Explore the details of Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3659-1, which tackles a vulnerability in the spice protocol found in multiple versions.
Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially

crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- spice: SPICE protocol client and server library

- spice-protocol: SPICE protocol headers

Details:

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain

client messages. An attacker could possibly use this to cause Spice to

crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libspice-server1                0.14.0-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 17.10:
  libspice-server1                0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libspice-protocol-dev           0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libspice-server1                0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6

After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make
all the necessary changes.

References

 

  CVE-2017-12194

May 23, 2018

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

 
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.8-2.2ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-protocol/0.12.10-1ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.6

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