USN-4572-2: Spice vulnerability
7 October 2020
Spice could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- spice - SPICE protocol client and server library
Details
USN-4572-1 fixed a vulnerability in Spice. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Frediano Ziglio discovered that Spice incorrectly handled QUIC image
decoding. A remote attacker could use this to cause Spice to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
After a standard system update you need to restart qemu guests to make all
the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4572-1: libspice-server1, spice, libspice-server-dev