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Debian DSA-4771-1 : spice - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141385

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Synopsis

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

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the spice packages.

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

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971750

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

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4771

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141385

File Name: debian_DSA-4771.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2020

Updated: 11/6/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

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-2020-14355

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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:10.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14355

DSA: 4771