MGASA-2016-0250: spice Mageia
Vulnerability summary
MGASA-2016-0250 is a vulnerability in spice Mageia with no CVSS score yet.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 2 · Downstream 0Timeline
- 08-07-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-04-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Updated spice packages fix security vulnerabilities Updated spice packages fix security vulnerabilities: A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice's smartcard interaction, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user connecting to a guest VM using spice could potentially use this flaw to crash the QEMU-KVM process or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host's QEMU-KVM process (CVE-2016-0749). A memory access flaw was found in the way spice handled certain guests using crafted primary surface parameters. A user in a guest could use this flaw to read from and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host (CVE-2016-2150).
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Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Mageia1 product
- spice< 0.12.5-2.3.mga5
1 vendor · 1 product