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MiracleLinux 8 : spice-vdagent-0.20.0-3.el8 (AXSA:2021-2117:03)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 293952

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2021-2117:03 advisory.

 * spice-vdagent: possible file transfer DoS and information leak via active_xfers hash map (CVE-2020-25651)
 * spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED is subject to race condition (CVE-2020-25653)
 * spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table (CVE-2020-25650)
 * spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd (CVE-2020-25652)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected spice-vdagent package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/13299

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 293952

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2021-2117.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25653

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25651

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:spice-vdagent, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25650, CVE-2020-25651, CVE-2020-25652, CVE-2020-25653