RLSA-2021:1791

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    RLSA-2021:1791

    Published: 18 May 2021Last Modified: 5 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: spice-vdagent security and bug fix update

    Details: The spice-vdagent packages provide a SPICE agent for Linux guests. Security Fix(es): * spice-vdagent: possible file transfer DoS and information leak via active_xfers hash map (CVE-2020-25651) * spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED is subject to race condition (CVE-2020-25653) * spice-vdagent: memory DoS via arbitrary entries in active_xfers hash table (CVE-2020-25650) * spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd (CVE-2020-25652) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: spice-vdagent

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/spice-vdagent?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:0.20.0-3.el8

    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
    RLSA-2021:1791 | CVE-DB