Improper Input Validation Affecting freedesktop/spice-gtk package, versions [,0.34]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.25% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEDESKTOPSPICEGTK-2366516
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-12194  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freedesktop/spice-gtk.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. A flaw was found in the way spice-client processed certain messages sent from the server. An attacker, having control of malicious spice-server, could use this flaw to crash the client or execute arbitrary code with permissions of the user running the client. spice-gtk versions through 0.34 are believed to be vulnerable.

CVSS Base Scores

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