MGASA-2017-0239

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    MGASA-2017-0239

    Published: 3 Aug 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7506

    Summary: Updated spice packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: A vulnerability was discovered in spice, in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send specially crafted messages to the spice server, causing out-of-bounds memory accesses leading to parts of server memory being leaked or a crash (CVE-2017-7506). The Mageia 5 package has been patched to fix this issue. The Mageia 6 package has been updated to version 0.13.90, containing fixes for this and several other issues.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0239.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21230, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/tree/NEWS?id=34dff543bef7a5201f41c72353a65840bd37c275, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452606, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3907, https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-07/msg00013.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: spice

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/spice?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.12.5-2.5.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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