CVE-2018-10873

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before version 0.14.1 where the generated code used for demarshalling messages lacked sufficient bounds checks. A malicious client or server, after authentication, could send specially crafted messages to its peer which would result in a crash or, potentially, other impacts.

How to fix CVE-2018-10873

To remediate CVE-2018-10873, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 0.14.1-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 0.14.0-1.1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.12.5-1+deb8u6 or later
• —upgrade to 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u2 or later
• —upgrade to 0.35-1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.25-1+deb8u1 or later

Is CVE-2018-10873 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (6)

• from 0, < 0.14.1-r0
• from 0, < 0.14.0-1.1
• from 0, < 0.12.5-1+deb8u6
• from 0, < 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u2
• from 0, < 0.35-1
• from 0, < 0.25-1+deb8u1

CVSS scores

References (2)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-10873
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10873