Description
The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-05
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00003.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3014-1
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00004.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1205
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3596
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1204
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.1598
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (15)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
opensuse/leap
42.1
opensuse/opensuse
13.2
redhat/enterprise_linux
6.0 (2 CPE variants)
redhat/enterprise_linux
7.0 (2 CPE variants)
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus
7.2
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
7.0
... and 5 more
Published
Jun 09, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026