CVE-2016-0749

Publication date 9 June 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
spice 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1
15.10 wily
Fixed 0.12.5-1.1ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.3
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

technically, this doesn't affect trusty since it is compiled with --disable-smartcard.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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