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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: USN-4572-2 Spice Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-4572-3 tackles a spice flaw that may result in system crashes or permit remote code execution.
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

Details:

USN-4572-1 fixed a vulnerability in Spice. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled QUIC image

decoding. A remote attacker could 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 14.04 ESM:
  libspice-server1                0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.8+esm1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4572-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4572-1

CVE-2020-14355

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October 07, 2020

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