CVE-2017-7506

Publication date 11 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

spice versions though 0.13 are vulnerable to out-of-bounds memory access when processing specially crafted messages from authenticated attacker to the spice server resulting into crash and/or server memory leak.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
spice 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.12.8-2ubuntu1.1
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.5

Patch details

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Package Patch details
spice

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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