Debian DSA-2839-1 : spice - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71867

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in spice, a SPICE protocol client and server library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues :

- CVE-2013-4130 David Gibson of Red Hat discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled certain network errors. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting as a SPICE server could use this flaw to crash the application.

- CVE-2013-4282 Tomas Jamrisko of Red Hat discovered that SPICE incorrectly handled long passwords in SPICE tickets. A remote user able to initiate a SPICE connection to an application acting as a SPICE server could use this flaw to crash the application.

Applications acting as a SPICE server must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Upgrade the spice packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.11.0-1+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71867

File Name: debian_DSA-2839.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/9/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:spice, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4130, CVE-2013-4282

BID: 61192, 63408

DSA: 2839

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