CVE-2016-9577

HIGH 8.8CVE-2016-9577 · Published 27/07/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9577 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting spice (spice project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.8%, higher than 90.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.13.90 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
spice spice_project	`< 0.13.90`	`0.13.90`

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in SPICE before 0.13.90 in the server's protocol handling. An authenticated attacker could send crafted messages to the SPICE server causing a heap overflow leading to a crash or possible code execution.

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0253.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0549.html · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/96040 · Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0254 · Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0552 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3790 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

spice

spice_project

< 0.13.90

0.13.90

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