Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package spice-gtk  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SPICEGTK-1076772
  • published18 Feb 2021
  • disclosed28 May 2021

Introduced: 18 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-20201  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

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 Ubuntu.

A flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92. A DoS tool might make it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing many renegotiations within a single connection.