=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3751-1
August 22, 2018

spice, spice-protocol vulnerability
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

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

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

Details:

It was discovered that Spice incorrectly handled certain messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libspice-server1                0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libspice-protocol-dev           0.12.10-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libspice-server1                0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.7

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3751-1
  CVE-2018-10873

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-protocol/0.12.10-1ubuntu0.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 3751-1: Spice vulnerability

August 22, 2018
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 18.04 LTS:   libspice-server1                0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:   libspice-protocol-dev           0.12.10-1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:   libspice-server1                0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.7 After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make all the necessary changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3751-1

  CVE-2018-10873

Severity
August 22, 2018

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-protocol/0.12.10-1ubuntu0.2   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.7

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