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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-3751-1 Moderate: Spice Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2018
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in Ubuntu's network stack may allow attackers to destabilize the system via crafted network packets. Update your system right away!
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

- 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.

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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                0.14.0-1ubuntu2.2

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

August 22, 2018

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Topics Covered

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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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