Alpine: multiple spice packages: security update to 0.12.8-r3

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424481

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated
attacker could send crafted messages to the SPICE server causing a heap overflow leading to a crash or
possible code execution. (CVE-2016-9577)

- A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An attacker able
to connect to the SPICE server could send crafted messages which would cause the process to crash.
(CVE-2016-9578)

- spice versions though 0.13 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds memory access when processing specially crafted
messages from authenticated attacker to the spice server resulting into crash and/or server memory leak.
(CVE-2017-7506)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9577

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9578

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-7506

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424481

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7506

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9577, CVE-2016-9578, CVE-2017-7506

BID: 96040, 96118, 99583