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Debian DSA-4375-1 : spice - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 121438

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Christophe Fergeau discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library, which might result in denial of service (spice server crash), or possibly, execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the spice packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u3.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920762

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/spice

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/spice

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4375

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121438

File Name: debian_DSA-4375.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/30/2019

Updated: 2/20/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spice, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3813

DSA: 4375