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CVE-2016-0749

Published: 9 June 2016

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
technically, this doesn't affect trusty since it is compiled
with --disable-smartcard.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
spice
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty
Released (0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3)
upstream Needs triage

wily
Released (0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1)
xenial
Released (0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1)
yakkety
Released (0.12.6-4ubuntu1)
zesty
Released (0.12.6-4ubuntu1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H