USN-1926-1: SPICE vulnerability
14 August 2013
SPICE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- spice - SPICE protocol client and server library
Details
David Gibson discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled certain network
errors. An attacker could use this issue to cause the SPICE server to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 13.04
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using the
SPICE protocol, such as QEMU, to make all the necessary changes.