Race Condition Affecting spice-vdagent package, versions <0:0.20.0-3.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-SPICEVDAGENT-4006018
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed3 Nov 2020

Introduced: 3 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-25653  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 spice-vdagent to version 0:0.20.0-3.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1791.

NVD Description

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

A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-vdagentd, possibly resulting in a denial of service or information leakage from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1