Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting spice-vdagent package, versions <0.17.0-4.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-SPICEVDAGENT-2666480
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed20 Aug 2021

Introduced: 20 Aug 2021

CVE-2020-25652  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 spice-vdagent to version 0.17.0-4.3.1 or higher.

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 SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in /run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1