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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Spice vulnerabilities (USN-2766-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86310

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Synopsis

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

Description

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization.
(CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libspice-server-dev, libspice-server1 and / or spice-client packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2766-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86310

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2766-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2015

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libspice-server1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:spice-client, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libspice-server-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-5261

USN: 2766-1