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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4771-1 spice -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Oct 2020

Affected Packages:

spice

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 971750.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-14355.

More information:

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the QUIC image decoding process of spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library, which could result in denial of service, or possibly, execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 0.14.0-1.3+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your spice packages.

For the detailed security status of spice please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/spice