Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2839-1 spice -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 08 Jan 2014
- Affected Packages:
- spice
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 717030, Bug 728314.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4130, CVE-2013-4282. - More information:
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:
- CVE-2013-4130
David Gibson of Red Hat discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled certain network errors. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting as a SPICE server could use this flaw to crash the application.
- CVE-2013-4282
Tomas Jamrisko of Red Hat discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in SPICE tickets. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting as a SPICE server could use this flaw to crash the application.
Applications acting as a SPICE server must be restarted for this update to take effect.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.0-1+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.4-0nocelt2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.4-0nocelt2.
We recommend that you upgrade your spice packages.
- CVE-2013-4130