Improper Input Validation Affecting spice-gtk package, versions <0.25-1+deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-SPICEGTK-287113
  • published22 Aug 2018
  • disclosed17 Aug 2018

Introduced: 17 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-10873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 spice-gtk to version 0.25-1+deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spice-gtk package and not the spice-gtk package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.